Success in retail often comes down to a counting game. How many people pass by your store? How many come inside? How long do they stay? And most importantly how many ultimately buy?
Today, the retail counting game has gotten a lot easier because we can now count devices as proxies for people, since many potential customers today, myself included, won't leave home without their smartphone. As soon as they enter a store, the beacon on their cell phone effectively announces its arrival to the Wi-Fi network and voil