Journal

Wednesday, January 10th, 2024

Live Shopping News

This is a prototype for marketing that I developed in the year 2019. With the informed consent of customers and staff, existing open circuit television camera video footage is used to capture, display, and feature the good products and good services in their normal and authentic shopping space. The end-product is a form of advertising that facilitates audience engagement. It’s a strategy for bringing together the brick-and-mortar retail space, social media, static webpages, and the e-commerce selling environment.

One Wishlist for Future Innovation and Technology

A built-in search function for the photos and images that are on your computer, tablet, or mobile device that allows you to run a search query with results returned based on color-specific criteria such as color shade, a range variety or gradient of colors, or a set color palette, and this could be done according to RGB, CMYK, or Hex Code selection and identifiers.

These are some of the things that came up on my news feed in the last 24 hours on social media:

  • Nostalgic ice cream like strawberry shortcake coated in a graham cracker crust
  • Brown sugar fudge made the old fashioned way
  • Vanilla custard cake at the carnival
  • The song “If You Go Down (I’m Going Down Too) as made famous by the country western singer superstar Kelsea Ballerini
  • Broccoli cheese bun casserole
  • Chicken skin chicharrón as a menu item on the buffet table
  • The game show “Supermarket Sweep”
  • Tomato soup like a bisque and a side of Chardonnay
  • Grilled caprese sandwiches with a side of the bisque
  • A sewing pattern for hi-duke gym shorts
  • Tilly hats in the style of Outback

Top 3 favorite kinds of candy and chocolate for this upcoming Valentine’s Day 2024

  1. Strawberry Cookie Dough Bites (candy-coated cookie dough) and they come in an 88 g (3.1 oz) size box and they’re made in the U.S.A. by the people that also make Smarties (best seller)
  2. M&M’s milk chocolate bark that comes in a heart-shaped 99 g size box
  3. Limited Edition Lindor Lindt Chocolates in Neopolitan and they come in a 150 g size bag

Top Selling Magazine in the Food and Travel Category in the last 60 days

  1. Food and Travel Christmas 2023 Edition and it’s published in the U.K. and it’s available internationally and the UPC code is 977136669614 (best seller)

Top Selling Magazine in the Business Category in the last 60 days

  1. Fast Company Winter 2023 / 2024 Edition and the “Recommender” article starting on page 17 is a favorite and the UPC code is 074820031018 (best seller)

Top Selling Cookbook in the past 90 days isn’t written by Jamie Oliver

  1. I Could Nosh: Classic Jew-ish Recipes Revamped for Every Day by Jake Cohen and it’s published by Harper and the recipe “Sandwich Schmear” starting on page 35 is a favorite (best seller)