nathanlee's comments

Don't mean to be insensitive to the fire but I'm just glad there's no reported human injuries. Things are just things. Even if they are artifacts that represent more.

While at a major beverage brand conglomerate, I used to be interested in this kind of data.

We had various projects that helped us gain insights on consumers from hiring agents, observing camera footage, tracking SKU sales & out-of-stocks, and use of beacons.

Every major FMCG company I've worked with already uses some tech vendor for segmented footfall model to drive placements of branded displays and promotional space.

We did run into real challenges conducting A/B tests in the retail environment though. Unlike with web apps where A/B tests are easily deployed and measured with analytics, in the retail environment, its hard to effectively measure success of A/B tests and attribute shopper motivation. Say if an A/B test is conducted on whether a retail display will drive sales of SKU's we'd need to be able to attribute sales against those SKU's. The challenge is that a FMCG company will try to place new products everywhere around the store and only on paid-for displays so it'll be hard to assess the success. Can you also track where in the store a product was picked into a cart?

What I think is an interesting angle you guys have is that you integrate with existing hardware/ security cameras in stores. Solutions sold to me required us to install new cameras to gain insights on our brand's aisles. It may help your go-to-market to partner with major security camera companies (like Avigilon http://avigilon.com/) to sell your document as a part of a bundle.

Not sure but from what it reads like, Apple's servers won't be holding data subject PII and data subjects have choice to opt-in or out. Though this process may need to be may need to be easier to toggle.