CONTAINER STORE, Dallas, a retailer of storage and organizing products, said it sold a 10percentt stake of its stock to the Fort Worth financier Robert M. Bass and two other investors.
A11 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Homeowners Turn Garages Into Status Symbols Homeowners in New York City's suburbs, and around the country, have latched onto garage organizing, spending $800 million on garage organizing products last year and making it one of the fastest-growing segments of the home improvement market.
But they might be surprised at the sympathetic response: Suburban homeowners are so full of angst, guilt, despair and frustration over their bulging garages that they spent $800 million on garage organizing products last year, double the amount spent in 2000, according to the market research firm Packaged Facts.
The discovery feature online and in the native mobile app now organizes products into an expanded array of categories beyond the initial handful, and it utilizes human curators, too.
A new application launching today on the iTunes App Store wants to make mobile shopping – including organizing products you like from multiple stores and receiving price drop notifications – as simple as taking a screenshot on your phone.
Similar to startups like the shopping service Canopy, this section of Amazon's website has evolved in recent months from a simple page with just a few categories (Women, Men and Fun) to one that now organizes products into more than two dozen different sections.
The new website aims to centralize the now numerous options involving smart home hardware and services under one roof, organizing products into broad, high-level categories, like "Energy Management," "Entertainment," and "Monitoring," which you can then further drill down into via sub-categories like "Lightbulbs" or "security cameras," "televisions" or "alarms," and so on.
It formally represents and organizes product information in both functional and physical domain in a multilevel and object-oriented manner.
We found that the hub-and-spoke model for organizing product design with the rest of the engineering team works well.
