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Good news to all folks in “The City”. Online auction and shopping behemoth eBay is launching a new same-day delivery program in San Francisco. It’s called eBay Now, and it is now available in beta for iOS devices. Essentially, eBay Now allows shoppers to make purchases from local stores and receive them on the same day after paying the $5 same-day shipping fee. eBay is still inviting San Francisco shoppers to sign up to the beta version of eBay Now.

eBay is also announcing an introductory offer to ramp up the popularity of the service. eBay will cut off $15 from your first purchase and will even waive off the $5 shipping fee on your first three purchases. eBay Now is open  between 9 AM and 9 PM, from Mondays to Saturdays, and from 9 AM  to 6 PM on Sundays. Deliveries can arrive in an hour, but the orders will have to be made at least half an hour before the store closes. eBay has partnered with major retailers including Macy’s, Toys’R’Us, Target, and Best Buy. You can sign up here.

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Dead tree product catalogs — dated. Fortunate, then, at least for Mother Earth, that Microsoft’s unveiled the results of its team-up with retail-focused search engine TheFind, several web-based Glimpse catalogs, offering the visual pizazz of a retail magazine without the carbon hangover. Injecting Redmond’s HTML5 know-how into the shopping hub’s catalog and social apps, it distills those functions into the single site. Stores including Brooks Brothers and Lands’ End have already offered up their collections in the web store, but Techcrunch reckons the venture needs a little more work. The images appear to be little too compressed and blurred in the new format, while the detail view directs users to social network sharing rather than a product’s description. But with Microsoft already offering the HTML5 juice that powers the online app for free, someone else might improve on the company’s groundwork.

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Research shows that consumers have the tendency to please their testers each time they are asked for their opinions about a certain product in the market. This poses a challenge to companies since they usually ship large amounts of products without direct contact to its users for feedback. In a bid to solve this, companies like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Kimberly-Clark are using three-dimensional computer simulations of product designs and store layouts with eye-tracking technology to monitor shopping decisions.

Researchers over at Kimberly-Clark reportedly used computer screens outfitted with retina-tracking cameras when the company launched a new package for its Viva paper towels. According to Senior Manager Kim Greenwood, the goal was to find out which designs got noticed easily in the first 10 seconds after a consumer looks at the shelf. (more…)

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Now we aren’t all millionaires, so we can’t possibly afford having a
couple hundred gold bars to put in our personal
safes. As an alternative, we normal folks can get ones of these Gold Bullion Optical Mouse instead. You know, to show that we can keep up with the gold trend without going into debt.

Even though Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is still in theaters, the Blu-ray has been available for pre-order before the movie even came out. We didn’t know what exactly were the extra benefits for ordering the Blu-ray was, but Amazon France has just revealed all of them.

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