For example, during the day, when homemakers are most likely to be shopping, point-of-purchase displays might feature families using a product.
Even Hong Kongers can feel a similar pain: if you sign up for a tour group to mainland China, you would always be brought to a few "designated shopping points" where promoters would demonstrate their products from Pu'er tea to medical ointment.
Just like the special awards offered by credit card companies, be they frequent flyer miles or shopping points, you have to do the legwork to redeem them.
The technique is based on determinations of the time interval that elapses between the initiation of a seismic wave at a selected shop point and the arrival of reflected or refracted impulses at one or more seismic detectors.
"The fact that you can make reproductions, that's wonderful from the museum shop point of view, but I was curious if there's any part of it that's interesting to conservators.
Relative to the other hacks that took on fashion and Glass, it's maybe the purest application of using the device to shop: point, shoot, buy.
As you shop, point out things they might like to add to their redesigned room and listen to their responses.
Then, a man came into the shop, pointed a gun at her, grabbed her iPhone and fled, she told the police.
Earlier this month, 18 lawyers specialising in equality and discrimination law signed an open letter to shops, pointing out that exposing employees and customers to pornographic lads' mags can constitute sexual harassment and sex discrimination (under the Equality Act 2010).
WHAT is that, Rod, a hair dryer?" asked Darren Wainer, the manager of the Movin' On auto sound and security shop, pointing to yet another gadget in Rodney Bunney's Ford Expedition.
Leo McKee stands outside the shop, pointing out his company's chief design features: "We show products in a room-style setting; the customer should be able to walk around with a buggy".
