GroceryIQ App - quick shopping lists

"Grocery IQ is an iPhone application that gives users a simple method for tracking and organizing the groceries they buy. Upon first use, items from a shoppers’s list are automatically sorted to match the rows of the store they shop. Over time the application learns the user’s purchase habits and default items to arrange shopping lists even more efficiently."

Source: PSFK Future of Retail report, p18

Give + Take Shop - business model

An eco shop in East Dulwich has an interesting business model - bring in unwanted furniture or clothes and get a store credit for 50% of the net selling price. Presumably 'net' in this case means sale price less VAT.

Cues for Our Habits

Experiments have shown that most cues fit into one of five categories:

• Location - Where are you? (Sitting at my desk.)
• Time - What time is it? (3:36 p.m.)
• Emotional State - What’s your emotional state? (Bored.)
• Other people - Who else is around? (No one.)
• Immediately preceding action - What action preceded the urge? (Answered an e-mail.)

Source: NY Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

ThredUp

Interesting. Not a brokerage - they buy the clothes from you and then re-sell.

Swap-O-Matic

This vending machine allows you to donate, receive or swap objects. If you donate you get a credit, if you receive you use a credit. Obviously it's not really enforceable, its "a statement on over-consumption in our society".




Info: http://www.swap-o-matic.com

Jamie Oliver parties

Jamie Oliver has now followed Tupperware and Ann Summers in having home selling parties. Apparently, you can sign up to be a 'consultant' and earn money around your family life.

www.jamieathome.com

Pay-Per-Minute Cafe

Interesting business model innovation - cafe in Moscow where you pay for the time you're there and get free beverages.

 Source:

• Springwise 
• www.anticafebabochki.ru

Zaarly

Interesting start-up brokerage for buying and selling with people nearby.

http://www.zaarly.com/

Types of Business Model & Pricing Model

Ad-funded

Affiliate/franchise

Brokerage model - earn fees or commission, e.g. eBay; PayPal

Subscriptions

Merchant - sell product or services for a unit price

Pricing models - cost plus, value-based, yield management, freemium

'Do Some Business Models Perform Better Than Others?':
seeit.mit.edu/Publications/BusinessModelsPerformance12July2006.pdf

Simple Bank

Simple are a soon-to-launch new bank. Or as they put it 'more than a bank'.

Article on their mobile app:
www.fastcodesign.com/1665303/first-look-banksimples-iphone-app-aims-to-reimagine-your-money

Their site:
www.simple.com