Shopbox
East Chao, Parag Panchal, Suresh Visvanathan, Naveed Ansari, Unni Varriam, Kai Huang
Abstract
E-commerce has allowed a much wider selection for consumers than was available before via
retail shopping. This has led to analysis paralysis for shoppers as they often spend hours
researching products. This can be particularly difficult for complex items like consumer
electronics. ShopBox seeks to simplify the shopping experience by doing much of the data
coalition for the shopper, providing suggestions, and fetching friend recommendations.
ShopBox’s goal is to be a data warehouse with the purpose to ease the shopping experience.
We plan to hold zero physical inventory and endeavor to be the software solution to online
research.