Projects: Macy’s Herald Square In NYC October 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes The biggest department store in the world is now, not surprisingly, turning into the biggest retail digital signage project in the world. Or at least looks like it is. I had about an hour before heading to NYC JFK on Thursday so I zipped down to see the renovations I had been hearing about Macy’s …
Projects: Guerlain’s Terrific Duty-Free Micro Shop October 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes We spent most of the last two weeks on a Hawaiian island (Molokai) that is so sleepy it doesn’t have a traffic light and the only retail chains around are Napa Auto Parts and Ace Hardware. It was awesome. However, we had to start and end our first time in Hawaii in Honolulu, which is …
Projects: Queue Management For Cyclists September 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes Queue management systems are no-brainers as great customer service applications, as as content for digital signage screens. If I am waiting for attention at a retail location, restaurant or government office, I will refer relentlessly to a screen that tells me where I am on the wait list. Like POS, queue management systems have more …
Apple’s Gorgeous, Digital Signage-lite Stores September 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes Note: Revised based on reader comments … Look around the retail landscape and you see no end of design directly influenced by Apple’s minimalist stores. They’re beautiful. The state of the retail design art. And they have little or no digital signage. There are iPads on tables that could be called digital signage (I …
Projects: New Shoppers Drug Mart Boutique August 28, 2013 by Dave Haynes Canadian retailer Shoppers Drug Mart has always done a roaring trade in crazily high margin, and crazily tiny, jars, vials and tubs of beauty products, and has been putting more and more of an emphasis on that in its pharmacy locations across the country. The retailer today opened a beautyBOUTIQUE at the hyper-busy Toronto Eaton …
Startup Thirdshelf Lets Retailers Easily Appify For The Sales Floor July 23, 2013 by Dave Haynes Retailers who want to get their pots and pans, or whatever they sell, onto app-driven tablets for staff can find themselves conflicted on exactly how to do that. The default option is to get an app development team to build one and get it approved and loaded in app stores. If the retailer has a …
Projects: Stacked Digital Branding Wall At DFW Retailer Destinations July 1, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s another airport job, this one at an apparel retailer called Destinations, at a shop within Dallas Fort Worth Airport. It’s a video wall of four stacked 46-inch monitors, in place to engage and influence some of the 58 million people who move through that crazy airline hub each year. The wall is run by a …
EBay Making Some NYC Store Windows Shoppable June 6, 2013 by Dave Haynes EBay is switching on four shop windows in New York’s lower east side tomorrow as interactive browsing and payment gateways, letting fashion-hounds select, pay for and arrange same-day shipping of goods otherwise sold inside. The first of these “shoppable windows” goes live Saturday, for a month, at locations of Kate Spade Saturday, a new fashion …
Stratacache Bags Dairy Queen May 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes Stratacache won Dairy Queen quite some time ago, I think, but now has the sign-off to officially name the ice cream company as a major account. American Dairy Queen Corporation, as the company is more officially known, has signed on with Dayton, Ohio-based Stratacache to ‘power digital feature panels across 300 Dairy Queen and DQ …
Projects: Digital Fixtures In Strasbourg’s Galeries Lafayette April 16, 2013 by Dave Haynes The press release is in French, which I am proficient at when it comes to ordering beer, but not much else. But what I could tell is that French integrator Eikeo is working with the Galeries Lafayette store in Strasbourg, France to get large vertical displays around the place. Two things: 1 – The sleek black …
