Also today, Cuyana is kicking off what it's calling the "Lean Closet" movement: Customers who buy Cuyana items will also receive a bag in which to put unwanted items from their own closets to send back to the company in exchange for store credit.
Cashier activities and movements, customer interaction and counter design issues were analysed from the video data.
Jeffrey Fagan, professor of law and public health at Columbia University, predicts that the prison program will have limited success because most young former convicts have little freedom of movement and customer base.
Even though the country's largest banks have dropped plans to charge fees for debit card use, a movement encouraging customers to consider switching to community banks or credit unions remains energized.
The first wave of offshore outsourcing began with the movement of customer-service call work to offices in India, Malaysia and Indonesia, but American companies are also beginning to send back-office work, like the processing of forms, abroad as well.
I have indicated some of the interesting market events that began a significant movement of customers away from Microsoft and toward Apple: the introduction of a Windows-compatible iPod, the opening of the iTunes store and the introduction of the iPhone (both a phone and a pocket-sized personal computer, running an operating system written by Apple).
That means the field is wide open for a land grab, but also that there is still a lot of movement among customers.
And those hesitations can have a larger impact on the industry as a whole, as a number of companies are betting on this movement of customers away from big cable TV to new forms of Internet-only entertainment, whether that's content from YouTube creators as aggregated by the startup Vessel, for instance, or even HBO itself as a standalone service.
Along the same lines, certain retailers are using smart phones to track the movement of customers in their store to gather information on what products they look at and for how long -- similar to how Amazon tracks online shopper habits so it can direct them to other products that algorithms determine they might be interested in.
Last month, Apple defended its use of iPhone location data but denied that it was tracking the movements of customers.
