Ikea Opens Screen-Filled City Store On London’s Busiest High Street May 2, 2025 by Super User While London’s Oxford Street seems mostly to cater to tourists, based on all the candy and cheap souvenir shops, the UK capital’s busiest retail high street continues to add more reasons for digital signage nerds to visit. There is Outernet London at one end, by the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. There is the Flannels …
UK’s Sky Pairs High-End TV In Shop Window With Transparent LED To Amplify Key Reasons To Buy April 29, 2025 by Super User Here’s an interesting window marketing project that is touting a high-end TV by accentuating its on-screen highlights, sync’ing and reinforcing them 0n a much larger near-transparent LED that fills much of the shop window. The effort supports the Sky Glass TV from the UK-based broadcaster and communications company also known as Sky. The UK wing …
In Dubai, A 500-Meter LED Wall Takes Place Of Construction Hoardings And Some “Pardon Our Dust!” Signs April 25, 2025 by Super User Things are done differently in budget-indifferent places like Dubai. So it is interesting, but not all that surprising, that the communications solution to turning off the Las Vegas Bellagio-style fountains that front the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa is not plywood hoardings and a Pardon Our Dust sign, but a 500 meter long LED screen …
German Apparel Retail Fills Flagship Store Window With Transparent LED April 24, 2025 by Super User While there are lots of vendors now making or reselling someone else’s near-transparent LED products, they’ve seemingly been more evident at trade shows than out in the real world. However, that also used to be the case with conventional direct view LED displays, which are now EVERYWHERE. So it is probably more a function of …
Big Interactive POS In Grocery Aisle Takes Place Of Merchandised Items, Because Goods Are Locked Up Elsewhere April 14, 2025 by Super User I was surprised, when stumbling across a retail trade publication story about in-store screens, that a touchscreen-embedded point of sale print piece was taking up such a big chunk of prime merchandising space on a grocery shelf … until I read on and learned it was all about reducing theft on high-value goods. The British …
New Eyefactive White Paper Digs Into Hows And Whys Of In-Retail Analytics Tech April 10, 2025 by Super User The German interactive systems firm Eyefactive has pushed out a free white paper that digs into the hows and whys of using in-store analytics to drive retail performance. The paper – Revolutionizing Retail: How In-Store Analytics are Closing the Gap with E-Commerce – suggests there are five key benefits: Improved Customer Satisfaction – Research shows …
NowSignage Powering Retail Media Network Across UK-based Superdrug Chain April 10, 2025 by Super User UK-based CMS provider NowSignage and its partners have the green light now to talk about how an aggregated solution including software will help drive some 500 screens in a retail media network to be rolled out across Superdrug stores up and down that collection of countries. CEO Nick Johnson and I chatted at ISE about …
Some 300 Stores In QSR Chain See Menu Displays Hacked By Pro-Palestine Activists April 10, 2025 by Super User Hacks of digital screens happens here and there, but a recent one involving a Canadian QSR chain was particularly bad because it appears to have been network-wide, affecting the menu board displays at the order counter AND outdoor screens in the drive-thru. So not just one or two stores because someone used PASSWORD as the …
Retail Technology Show Opens Tomorrow In London; 15,000 Retail Folks But Only 10 Or So Digital Signage Vendors? April 1, 2025 by Super User It’s a silly thing, I know, but I am fixated on this notion that suppliers and service providers targeting a specific vertical market might want to put some investment and resources into being at the largest events in a region that address that market. So it’s a bit puzzling to see how few digital signage-focused …
Spain’s Trison Now Rolling Out 5,000 Digital Signage Projects Annually March 31, 2025 by Florian Rotberg This is an interesting post from German language content partner invidis – an interview with Alberto Caceres, the CEO of Trison, the biggest pure-play digital signage integrator in Europe. The company, you may recall, recently acquired New York-based Zero-In, giving it an office, people and customer footprint in the United States. With more than €120 …
