Ebay is to share data with high-street retailers, which will enable employees in bricks in mortar stores to see information about the shopping habits of individual customers in real-time.
The “Retail Associate Platform” is an opt-in service that will allow eBay PayPal customers to check-in with their smartphones when they walk into a store. Store assistants are then served information on shoppers’ previous purchases and their product preferences via an app as well having access to product information in other....