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 …
Dubai Mall Lines Concourses With Big DV LED Back-To-Backs May 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes A lot of the digital signage jobs I have seen lately in shopping malls has tended to be very large direct view LED displays that dominate a space, or LED ribbons that line floors levels in atrium areas a bit like the way LED ribbons line the seating bowls in arenas. So it was interesting …
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 …
Fingrid Welcomes HQ Visitors With Big, Curved Reception Video Wall April 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Video walls in company lobbies are not new, and neither are curves built into LED video walls. But here’s a nice example of a video wall in an office that does a nice job of working with the curve. This in the Helsinki lobby of Fingrid. It’s a curved LG DV LED wall, put in …
Bahrain’s F1 Track Wraps Famed Tower In 360-degree LED Rings April 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Motor speedways have such an interesting business model – giant footprints and very expensive infrastructure for hosting a handful of events annually. Consider this 360-degree LED installation on a building at the Formula 1 track in Bahrain, which has that one big race a year, and presumably a fraction of people passing through there the …
Huge 50 Meter-Wide LED Video Wall Used As Changeable Set By Chinese State Broadcaster April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a huge LED video wall – 50 meters by 10 meters tall – being used for an ever-changeable broadcast set by a Chinese state broadcaster. The curved wall was put up to help run a two-hour live TV event recently, called CCTV Consumer Rights Day Gala. I will leave it to other, more …
Next Store In UK Fills Checkout Zone With DV LED Wall April 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a Next fashion apparel and furnishings store in Leicester, UK (go Foxes!) that uses a sweeping direct view LED s the backdrop to its checkout counter. I like this because of the scale of the screen. LCDs and OLEDs are gorgeous, but they are either going to be screens hanging on a wall …
Lots Of Kiosk Screens, No Digital Menu Displays, In New All-Digital Times Square Taco Bell April 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Taco Bell opened its first digital-only restaurant in the U.S. yesterday, a New York’s Times Square “Cantina” store that has no order counter or menu boards. The only way to order is ahead of time online or by mobile, or in-store using one of 10 self-order kiosks. Order-ahead customers can use a separate entrance and …
