Richard Mizer
San Francisco, CA (USA)
Role(s):
Media Company LLC
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Location:
San Francisco
Industry:
Retail/Clothing
Year Founded:
2008
Number Employees:
INVALID
Description:
Based on an entertainment merchandising engine the Media Station provides a blending of online, mobile and instore shopping and enables the Future of Retail.
The Media Station is a virtualized client/server platform installed at retail connected to the Internet to provide a variety of applications: instore inventory search, comparison shopping, online ordering, social networking, targeting advertising, and media distribution.
The inital application is replacement of physical media such as DVDs with virtual inventory through DVDonDemand and download to portable media devices including cellphones.
But beyond that the value proposition is while 60% of shoppers go online to find the products they need they still pick them up at retail, unfortunately when they get there, that access t