VSBLTY, Onyx Glass Partner On Idea Of Cooler As A Service For Digital Chiller Door Screens May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The screens as grocery and c-store chiller doors thing has been around perhaps as long as a decade, and while marketplace adoption seems pretty limited to date, there are still companies getting into the concept and adding their own ideas on a special sauce, like AI. The latest is a tie-up between the Philly computer …
New Research Suggests Touchscreens Leading Public Display Sector Recovery May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes As digital signage and retail tech sellers continue to tout touchless solutions – using voice, gesture, hover and QR-to-smartphone set-ups – the main buyers out there appear to be opting for screens that get touched. New research from OMDIA says the Interactive Touch (IFP/Touch) segment actually leads the recovery being seen in the total Public …
Starbucks Takes Digital End-Cap Concept Into The Aisles At ASDA Supermarket In UK May 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes My Linkedin feed had a post up from the UK about a digital merchandising display for Starbucks in the aisles of an ASDA supermarket. The display is like a digital end-cap, except it was in-aisle and uses tactics like fins and angled displays to try to grab shopper attention. I note this for a few …
Splashy New Westfield Mall Of Netherlands Using Big Digital Displays Inside And Out May 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Westfield Mall of The Netherlands opened a few weeks ago – Holland’s biggest retail destination with over 280 stores in the vicinity of The Hague. The development cost more than half a billion Euros, but even in a period when retail has been clobbered, the mall is more than 90% leased. Like just about …
Is This The World’s Biggest Digital Menu Display? May 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is certainly the biggest digital menu display I’ve ever seen – a set-up using LED in the common area of a cinema operation in the Cinépolis movie theater chain. Cinépolis is the largest cinema circuit in Latin America and the third worldwide, operating across Mexico, Brazil, part of the U.S. and roughly a dozen …
Big Sales Growth Being Tracked For Flat Panel Displays Through NA Pro AV Channel: PMA Research April 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you are looking for signs of Pro AV sector being re-animated, here’s data from PMA Research (which does guess what) suggesting commercial flat panel demand has ticked up. The market research firm’s sales tracking report on large-format flat panel displays sold in the North American Pro AV channel were up substantially, monthly and year …
Tim Hortons Halfway Through Massive Drive-Thru Display Refresh; Using Samsung, Melitron, STRATACACHE April 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Winning big deployment deals with big brands is a wonderful thing for just about any technology vendor, but it often comes with the proviso that the vendor can’t make any PR noise about it. Most vendors have big or even whale clients they only talk about in conversations, and don’t list those clients on websites …
Lextar Demos Super Fine-Pitch 0.46mm MiniLED Video Display; Transparent MicroLED April 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Taiwan tech company Lextar has taken the curious step of announcing what will be on display LAST WEEK at the Touch Taiwan trade show – noting some interesting new mini and micro LED display products. More normally, tech marketers would push out this kind of information ahead of a show, or on opening day. …
Submarine Takes Slow Dive Based On Viewers Of Those UK Digital Billboard April 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes In the first wave of QR codes. several years ago, there were lots of jokes about the dubious merits of putting these enhanced bar codes on digital OOH billboards. But here, in what seems to a revival period for the tech, is a billboard that makes the artistic rendering of the codes the focal point …
MiniLED, MicroLED Showcased This Week At Touch Taiwan April 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Touch Taiwan is now running in Taipei – with an in-person exhibit hall and with virtual components aimed, at least in part, on foreign buyers who reasons we all know can’t get to the almost COVID-free island country. There are reasons to pay attention because a big chunk of the digital signage display and playback …
