This Digital Signage Software Firm Is Letting Customers Decide If They Want AI-based Functionality July 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes While a lot of digital signage CMS software and solutions companies are trying every which way to work AI into their marketing and PR messages, the CEO of a UK CMS firm has taken the interesting step of saying his company is dialing back its AI support and enabling customers to unilaterally switch off AI-backed …
Video Shows Shopping Experiences And Tech Being Tested For Ikea Stores in Madrid Experience Lab July 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting little quick-cutting video that shows what’s going on in a Madrid lab that’s testing technologies and store design ideas for global retailing giant Ikea. The Global eXperience Lab (xLab) has now been in operation for a year, testing concepts for the Ingka Group, by far the largest Ikea franchisee on the planet. …
Proto, Amazon Web Services Collaborate On Text To Hologram(ish) Displays For Retail July 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Are there many retailers who will spend $50K+ USD for a giant LCD that shows products floating around on a transparent screen? I don’t think so, but some people in the cloud computing side of online retailing behemoth Amazon see something I just maybe don’t. Amazon Web Services and LA-based Proto have collaborated on what …
McDonald’s Ending AI-Driven, Drive-Thru Voice Ordering Trial With IBM June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes While there is no end of buzz about AI and its ability to take over and optimize some human tasks, one of the world’s largest and most influential quick service restaurant chains is lapsing atrial it was running that used AI for automated order-taking in its drive-thru lanes. McDonald’s has told franchisees it is shutting …
Bluefin, Intel Collaborate On New Ocean Series That Adds ChromeOS Support For All-In-One Displays June 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based Bluefin has broadened its range of supported operating systems for its built-in displays – launching a new Bluefin Ocean series that is a direct collaboration with Intel and allows them to run on Windows, Linux or Chrome OS. Bluefin already had an Intel/Windows solution through Seneca, but Arrow’s decision earlier this year to wind …
Google – InfoComm 2024 Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sponsor Profiles June 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is next week in Las Vegas, and Sixteen:Nine has partnered with Experience United Social Club to run what is a very sold-out networking event. This one is at a darts-themed bar called Flight Club, in the Palazzo complex. There will will be a little discussion about what was seen on the show floor, then networking …
How To Make In-Store Retail Media Responsive To Consumer Moments May 22, 2024 by Ron Levac Guest Post: Ron Levac, Spectrio The core idea of digital signage in retail is putting screens where shoppers go, and hoping the messages on them get noticed and influence purchasing decisions. But what if you could tune the messages to that moment when consumers notice, and respond to what they do? A new generation of …
Lowes Strips Down To One Security Camera Platform; Multi-tasks It To Also Do In-Store Audience Analytics May 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Security camera deployments in retail don’t get a lot of attention here, but a post in the publication Chain Store Age got my interest because of the way DIY giant Lowes is multi-tasking its newly upgraded and harmonized network of in-store cameras – including using them for in-store analytics. Lowes already had security cameras all …
7-Eleven Japan Rolling Computer Vision-Informed Retail Media Network Across 500 Stores May 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Japanese wing of convenience store giant 7-Eleven is rolling out what looks and sounds like a retail media network in 500 locations around that country, placing a big emphasis on in-store analytics by using a Sony computer vision platform. The retail giant is using the edge AI-sensing platform AITRIOS developed and supported by Sony …
Design Huddle Curates, Integrates Key AI-Based Workflow Tools Into Its Graphic Design Software May 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Visuals generated by artificial intelligence seemed like something that would be quickly adopted for use by digital signage companies, but most of the software and solutions people who’ve been showing or at least talking about AI tools have used them much more for back-end purposes – notably using it to do the more mundane aspects …
