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eBay Helps Consumers Avoid Black Friday Headaches with Happy Holiday Hotspots in New York and San Francisco
This Black Friday, as part of its holiday initiative to help consumers Shop in Peace, eBay offered an alternative to the mayhem that occurs in traditional retail environments by hosting HAPPY HOLIDAY HOTSPOTS – food trucks that deliver sweet treats and free WiFi, creating a mobile shopping sanctuary. On the most harrowing shopping day of the year, consumers with the eBay mobile app were able to shop right from their smartphone while enjoying holiday-themed snacks and hot cocoa from the renowned food trucks, Sweetery (NYC) and Kara’s Cupcakes (San Francisco).
In New York’s Herald Square and San Francisco’s Union Square, brand ambassadors armed with iPads and WiFi helped consumers download the app to their mobile devices in exchange for sweet treats and giveaways. Users could scan a QR code on the side of the truck and begin shopping right away.
Overall the events were a huge success, with more than 2,000 verified downloads of the mobile app, 8,000 holiday gift guides distributed, and 15,000 sweets and hot chocolates given out throughout the day.
Cool concept RV - Imgur
YES IT’S NIKE. YES IT’S SHOREDITCH. BUT IS IT GOOD? Nike’s global creative director Andy Walker gives a tour of the new NikeFuel Station at Boxpark in east London. Source: dezeen
Abandoned quarry turned into Hotel Resort
When I think of fun places to go on vacation, an abandoned industrial wasteland isn’t usually high on my list. That’s not going to stop the developers of this luxury resort near Shanghai, which has just broken ground.
Actually, “breaking ground” is not the most accurate term to use here, because the site is a long abandoned quarry called Tianmashan Mountain, meaning that the hole is already there.
When completed in about two and a half years, the Intercontinental Shimao Shanghai Wonderland will have 380 rooms, with 16 floors of the so called groundscraper deep inside the pit with just two poking out of the ground. The bottom of the pit will become an artificial lake, fed by a waterfall housed within a glass sheet falling in front of some of the rooms. At the bottom of the hotel there will be a two story underwater restaurant and aquarium.
A huge theme park will also be part of the complex, using the walls of the pit for rock climbing and bungee jumping. Rooms will start at $320 a night, with the entire complex expected to cost around $555 million.
I guess the developers were fans of the old line from Field Of Dreams: “If you build it, they will come.”
Some really awesome street art (day/night) - Imgur
So why are we jumping on the Kickstarter bandwagon with LEISURE SUIT LARRY IN THE LAND OF THE LOUNGE LIZARDS?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1451923705/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again
