Facebook Gets Fashionable: Like Counters Placed on Clothing Hangers - gallofolook

By now we're all jolly so much used to visual perception friendly media buttons (shameless plug: depend above the headline) for every frivolous thing on the WWW, from hot dogs to Cat Fancy. The Brazilian branch out of the fashion retailer C&A is going incomparable step further into real-world sharing by adding period Facebook "like" counters to its individual clothing items.

In a new opening move called Style Like, you can "like" certain items connected C&A website, and the results are displayed on digital read-out built into the apparel rack hanger. This way, a customer can look at a sports jacket or clothes's online popularity to help them resolve what to buy.

It's definitely an interesting experimentation to see if "likes" can make consumers in like a 5-star production review bottom. Of course, clothes hangers are hardly reliable–how many times have you picked upfield a hanger that says something is a medium exclusive to read the chase away see that it's actually a XXL? Not to mention the social-media store trolls that might be out there switch hangers.

I'm sporty surprised that this hasn't happened earlier.

There are already restaurants in my area with social media advertisements to same them on Facebook and review them connected Yelp. Within five years we will probably visit wholly store windows originate in superficial like the sociable media bar on top of this article with likes, tweets, and all manner of online sharing counters.

[C&A Brazil (Facebook) via Springwise, The Threshold, Gizmodo]