B8ta is Innovating the Retail Store Space

B8ta stores are changing the way consumers shop with their new type of retail store designed for trying and buying the latest tech products. Their innovative type of store can completely change the way consumers purchase and help give wearable tech engineers and designers a new space to show their innovative inventions.  

Inside the Built by B8ta store.

Built by b8ta

Recently b8ta launched ‘Built by b8ta’ which continues to innovate the shopping experience for wearable technology for consumers. Built by b8ta functions as a retail-as-a-service platform for brands, designers, and wearable tech engineers, etc. that want a physical presence. This is an easy, inexpensive solution for brands looking to launch a physical store.

Lowering the Cost

B8ta claims they have broke down opening a store to a science making it easier for those looking to sell wearable technology or other products. Essentially it works like a Shopify store, except instead of an online store, you have a physical store. They have broken down the process of opening a store by creating a service where they do the overhead, which is a fantastic opportunity for designers and wearable tech engineers to sell offline too. For example, a 2,500 square foot store is expensive to build, design and staff, however, b8ta will provide all of that for you for one flat monthly fee.

Decreasing the Time to Open

Additionally, to help eliminate the obstacles of opening a store, b8ta can help you launch a store in as little as three months by working through all the details and contracts that come along with opening a physical store for you.

Eliminating Overhead

Opening a store can require a lot of overhead such as in-store training, staffing, analytics, etc. and with b8ta you’ll simply pay a flat monthly fee, eliminating all those additional expenses that add up over time. Wearable tech engineers, engineers, and designers can be quite expensive so this helps eliminate overhead. 

What MAKO Design + Invent finds so exciting about this new type of concept is that it will allow our innovators, designers, and wearable tech engineers to not only exist and sell online but also to open physical locations in a more cost-efficient and practical way. This provides so many opportunities to bring wearable technology and other products in front of newly interested consumers.

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