Shopkick Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mobile apps keep shoppers coming back to stores

by Steven Sande (Feb 11th, 2013)

Traditional "brick and mortar" storefronts are facing a difficult competitor these days; the consumer armed with a smartphone or tablet who buys products online rather than making the difficult trek from couch to physical store. AllThingsD blogger Lauren Goode wrote today about a way that store ...

Shopkick, Best Buy team up to use location-based app for loyalty program

by Mike Schramm (Aug 17th, 2010)

I've been a member of Best Buy's rewards program for a little while now -- as long as I'm spending way too much of my hard-earned money at the big box retailer, I figure I might as well try to get some of it back. And I was pretty impressed with what they've done on their website with the program -- ...