World's First Virtual Shopping Store Korea

system · June 20, 2012, 9:08am

World’s First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All the Shelves are infact LCD Screens. User Choose their desired items by touching the LCD screen and checkout at the counter in the end to have all their ordered stuff packed in Bags.

TLK · June 20, 2012, 4:53pm

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Wow, this is just amazing and very clever, although little excessive. No need to protect the store against shop lifting.

aaliyahkhan1 · June 20, 2012, 5:06pm

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Trust the East Asians to come up with something like this…they always have the craziest gadgets…which we in North America only get to see after a few yrs!

TofiBaba · June 20, 2012, 7:24pm

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Enter the NFC chip!

Why the extravagant location? I’ve been doing virtual shopping for almost 2 decades now. Maybe for the social aspect? I don’t see a forum kiosk

Niksik · June 20, 2012, 7:35pm

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I’d rather shop on the Internet, araam se ghar per beyth ke in my pjs. Why go out and touch a screen when i can do that at home?

canadiandesigirl · June 20, 2012, 8:22pm

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Yea, not much different from online grocery shopping. Except with this you need a smart phone.

TofiBaba · June 20, 2012, 9:02pm

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Yeah, budhoos with a smart phone

system · June 21, 2012, 9:42am

. I think it’s for those who are going home after tiring day at work,they can do their groceries…

Zapatista · June 21, 2012, 11:32am

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This is old news…

That’s exactly what it is about. Koreans go to work at 8 am and come back home at 9 PM.

The Video you posted in your original post actually explains it…

A major South Korean retailer has opened what it appears to be the world’s first virtual store geared to smartphone users, with shoppers scanning barcodes of products displayed in a Seoul subway station. Homeplus, the nation’s second largest discount chain, is offering 500 items including food, electronics, office supplies and toiletries at its “store” at Seolleung station in the south of the city of 10 million.
Seven pillars and six platform screen doors have been plastered with images of life-size store shelves filled with goods – such as milk, apples, a bag of rice or school backpacks – which each carry a small barcode. Shoppers download a related application on their smartphone and make purchases by taking photos of the barcodes.

“You place an order when you go to work in the morning and can see the items delivered at home when you come home at night,” said a spokeswoman for Homeplus.
In fact, consumers don’t have to be anywhere near the virtual store. For example, if you want to order replacements of a bottle of water that you have in your hand, you don’t have to stop by the subway station. You simply scan the bottle’s barcode with the Homeplus app. The products are delivered later to home or office.
Currently, only Android smartphone users will be able to use the service that launched last week. Not that Homeplus hasn’t made an app iPhone, it’s just Steve Jobs and Co. hasn’t approved it yet.

aaliyahkhan1 · June 21, 2012, 7:23pm

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^Also I think East Asia has a bigger market in Android phones, not Iphones…

Zapatista · June 21, 2012, 7:49pm

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The iCan’t world of Apple is just too limited for Asians…