The world's first virtual store is located in Korea, and a smartphone is required to enter. Shopping experiment or the future?
In addition to the Koreans, the British also have their fingers in it, as it is a British giant Tesco, who owns a store Homeplus at the busy Seoul subway station where it is located the world's first virtual store, which for now is considered a shopping experiment, but surely this kind of concept has a future (as it seems today for everything with the sign of virtual).
Entry is therefore permitted - or better written: only meaningful to the owners smartphones, because in this store you can order by phone. Customers download the app to their smartphones and shop by taking a photo of the code on the "products", which are actually just a photo on the screen.
For now, buyers can choose between 500 different products, covering food, electronics and office equipment. Is the virtual store a temporary experiment that brings the trend of the future? Some say yes and some say no. Yes, because you can buy products on your way to work and when you return home after work, the purchase is already waiting for you at the door (everything ordered before one hour in the afternoon is delivered to your home the same day.) No, because so far it lasts from five to ten minutes to buy five products, which is much longer than if we shop physically.
Finally, another personal yes, because there is no more fear of clumsily and hastily broken bottles. And even stronger no, because it's still nice to smell freshly baked bread every now and then and eat a bun on the way from the store.
