New retail portal an innovative way for customers to browse and purchase
"It is user-friendly and there will always be someone in store to assist customers.”
With millions of book titles, CDs, movies and games, it is practically and financially impossible for retailers to house all of these products in a traditional bricks and mortar store. This is the reason they use the costly space available to offer only top sellers and new releases, severely limiting the options for customers looking for a wider range of choices.
Every book or CD that the retailer stocks but doesn’t sell, creates a dead stock headache, however, every item that they don’t buy or could have sold, is a lost sale.
There’s a brilliant innovative solution to retail, an ordering portal, the MediaHub, which is a virtual shopping solution designed to solve these problems by allowing customers to browse through the virtual store if what they want is not available on the shelves.
Customers can page through books that are not in store, as well as listen to music, watch trailers, read reviews and catch up with the very latest interviews and news in the entertainment and media space. Games are also available.
“By introducing this, we are also extending the life cycle of music and entertainment. With this media portal that we’ll be putting in various stores, it will make it possible for us to keep having music offerings, DVD offerings and book offerings in the stores. It is user-friendly and there will always be someone in store to assist customers,” said Goodwill Nkuna, a sales veteran in the South African music industry.
Available on MediaHub is the book Re-Introduction to African, Know Thyself, by renowned jazz legend, Don Laka. He said that the book was inspired by his travels across the world and Africa and contains more than 30 years’ worth of research.
Laka visited the source of ancient African civilizations such as Timbuktu and Kermit to gather more knowledge, information and take a lot of pictures. The book reveals a lot of African inventions that the world was made to believe were of European or Western origin and opens our eyes and minds to a whole new side of history.
