Projects: Apple Goes Very Big With LED In New Dubai Store November 25, 2015 by Dave Haynes I’ve written in the past about how Apple’s much-imitated minimalist store design has always been, at least to me, curiously light on digital signage. A typical store has screens, but those screens are accents. Very different story at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates, which has a giant, fine pixel pitch LED wall that dominates the …
Day 1 Dubai: It Rained??? November 24, 2015 by Dave Haynes A reminder that I am in Dubai this week, so posts will be sporadic, at best. My quick impressions. Very curious place. As over the top as billed. Las Vegas without the casinos, machine gun shooting ranges, Instant Loan shops or Hondurans passing out naughty cards. It is much larger than I thought. Main drag …
Projects: 14 Digital Experiences In Giant Nebraska Furniture Mart November 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look inside at the digital signage installed in the giant Nebraska Furniture Mart store that opened in the Dallas-Fort Worth area earlier this year. Premier Mounts and Reflect have pushed out a press release about the installation that sees “14 unique digital experiences for nearly 60 displays throughout the store.” Sounds like a lot, …
Projects: Sport Chek Opens Pair Of Tech-Heavy Flagship Stores November 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes Canadian retailer Sport Chek, which sells guess what, has opened a pair of tech-filled flagship stores in Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Square One Shopping Centre, two of the largest and busiest malls in Canada. They are about 25 minutes, to three days, away from each other, depending on greater Toronto traffic. Like an earlier flagship in …
Projects: Start-up Testing Virtual Dressing Room Mirror At Polo NYC Flagship November 18, 2015 by Dave Haynes Via TechCrunch … A San Francisco-based, VC-funded startup called Oak Labs is running a trial on a slick virtual mirror in the dressing room of the Ralph Lauren Polo NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Instead of the oft-touted augmented reality parlor trick – stand here and we’ll let you virtually try on clothes …
Anthony, Real Digital Media Pair Up On New Transparent Display Doors November 18, 2015 by Dave Haynes Another set of companies has entered the competition to win the eyeballs, hearts and budgets of grocers, convenience store operators and consumer brands with connected, transparent LCD displays embedded in cooler and freezer doors. Sarasota, Florida-based signage software firm Real Digital Media and Anthony, which makes display equipment for refrigeration systems, are launching a new product …
Adflow Gets U.S. Patent Grant On Interactive Retail Technology November 15, 2015 by Dave Haynes The guys up the street from me at ADFLOW Networks have announced a new patent grant for the process of lifting and looking at products in retail environments. The longtime signage CMS firm, based in Burlington, Ontario, says U.S. Patent No. 9,152,986 for “lift and touch” technology simplifies the complex problem of maintaining and updating content related to …
Projects: Lowe’s Goes Virtual To Squeeze More SKUs Into NYC Stores November 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes Commercial space is insanely expensive in Manhattan, so if a big box store wants to have a footprint in New York City it has to slim down the number of SKUs it has on hand and get creative with how products are marketed. One of the ways the DIY chain Lowe’s is doing that is …
Projects: A&W Canada Goes Digital With Menus November 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes A&W Food Services of Canada Inc, or A&W as we’re going to call them, has announced it is going digital with its menus at the roughly 850 stores across the Frozen North. The rollout has already started, running on software and services, like creative, from Cineplex Digital Networks, aka EK3. “We are extremely pleased with our …
Taggalo Mashes Up Beacons, WiFi And Video Analytics To Tell Retailers What Shoppers Are Up To November 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Italian/UK start-up Taggalo has launched a new gadget and service it says blends three technologies to provide retailers and brands richer insights about consumer behavior and interests in the aisles. The device combines a camera that does face pattern detection, a sensor for WiFi tracking and a Bluetooth beacon. The device spits out analytics …
