Planet Mall

PROBLEM

Retail is dying. It just won't stop showing up.

SOLUTION

Planet Mall is the MTREES retail ecosystem — the full suite of products, systems, and defensive infrastructure for the commerce environment where things are bought, returned, touched without intention of purchase, and occasionally protected from people who have very strong opinions about the self-checkout line. The mall is not dead. The mall is evolving into something stranger and more defensible. Planet Mall addresses both sides of the retail transaction: the products that facilitate commerce and the products that protect the people facilitating it. Trees here cover the complete spectrum from point-of-sale defensive hardware to retail feedback apparatus to the writing instrument that allows someone to formally register a number on a piece of paper in exchange for a small amount of money. Everything on this planet is designed for high-traffic, low-patience environments where someone is always about to have an opinion about the price.