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Loyalty 2.0: How retailers are innovating to improve customer loyalty

Loyalty 2.0: How retailers are innovating to improve customer loyalty | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Tesco announced recently that it had been running a trial at its new concept store on Villiers Street in central London, in which digital discount coupons were pushed to the smartphones of 40,000 shoppers who had ether passed by the store six times during a two-week period or walked in and out of nearby Embankment station.


Customers could redeem their coupons by scanning them at one of the store’s self-service checkouts. Tesco described the trial as an attempt to use the ever-increasing popularity of mobile to address some of the challenges to maintaining customer loyalty that have been created in recent years by the growth of omnichannel retail....

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New technology requires innovative new marketing and loyalty programs. 

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Whoa, Sony Trained Octopus to Take Photos of Aquarium Visitors | @Adfreak

Whoa, Sony Trained Octopus to Take Photos of Aquarium Visitors | @Adfreak | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

This particular sea creature was used to promote the water- and shock-resistant camera because octopuses are among the most intelligent denizens of the deep. (Besides, clams can't take direction, and lobsters are too darn tasty.)


A special rig helped Rambo push a shutter button to capture images of visitors outside her tank at Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand. Rambo's trainer, Mark Vette, says it took her just three attempts to understand the process, though at times she behaved like an eight-armed diva, smashing several cameras to bits during a two-month training process. (Elsewhere, this little dude mastered octo-selfies in no time!)...

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Holy mackerel, this octopus can use a camera! Sony and FCB Auckland trained a female octopus named Rambo (no relation) to take pictures with a Cyber Shot TX30 camera for this captivating minute-long video.

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