eBay Christmas boutique Archives

eBay opens new pop-up store in London for the holidays

12/07/201112/07/2011 Jennifer Goula

Electronic commerce giant eBay is launching a new pop-up store in the UK. The store, dubbed eBay’s Christmas Boutique, will have no cash registers as everything in the store can be bought by scanning the QR code connected to the item. More than 350 products will be on display for the five days that the store is open. Located at 34/35 Dean Street in London, eBay hopes to attract tech-savvy holiday shoppers that want to avoid the bustle of conventional stores. Two different types of QR codes are in use…

eBay announces the first British QR code shopping environment and its new Christmas boutique

11/26/201111/26/2011 L. Green

eBay has just announced the latest of its mobile-related services, taking advantage of the rapidly increasing popularity of QR codes, which are now becoming highly familiar with their appearance on everything from clothing, food products, electronics, beauty products, and even tombstones. The largest online marketplace in the world will now also be using these codes to help with the Christmas shopping experience throughout the holiday season, in order to help consumers to purchase the gifts and other items they want to give or to keep for themselves. They will be…