I don’t know about you, but whenever I’m looking for a store in a shopping centre, there’s never a map in sight. I end up walking around in circles; finally find the store I’m looking for, only to coincidentally find a mall map right outside of it. Hey, I’m a man on a mission, venturing only into a mall knowing what I want, and where I want to look for it. It would be sweet if I could look it up on my phone, and save the hassles of exploring new territory. Now there’s an app for that (sorry couldn’t help it).
The Toronto Eaton Centre introduced their iPhone application this month to make holiday shopping, well, a little more joyous. The application has a list of features including store promotions, guest services information, ability to check your gift card balance, and (wait for it) an interactive mall map! You can also search through the list of stores available, by category or promotions, and save your favourite shops. And for those who love to stay connected, the app includes a Facebook and Twitter feature so you can tell the world that your shopping and your doing it at the Eaton Centre.
To help promote this app, the Eaton Centre is offering a chance to win a $250 gift card when you tell them about your iPhone App experience. You can download the app by searching ‘Toronto Eaton Centre’ through the App Store on your iPhone, or through iTunes on your computer.
Happy shopping.
Category apps, mobile Tags iphone, mobile, shopping
ah but does gps kick in to help navigate the hordes of shoppers?
but really, some mall should kick it up a notch and offer a full catalog of store inventories and let you buy from a mall kiosk- like online shopping scoped to that mall; with pricing and quantities exact to that location. taking it to the next level then would be offering that kiosk in an iphone/smartphone app.
sure it’ll take an immense amount of coordination with the shops, and yes consumers will still have to fight crowds while browsing and trying things on.. but offering such a kiosks can help store staff and consumers alike by providing relief at POS terminals.
maybe yorkdale sometime soon….
Great Find.
I’d love to see more of these for all the major malls in the gta. Hopefully the Cadillac Fairview malls will bring out their own versions.