Nike Paris Flagship Uses LED Rotors In Glass Cylinders To Promo New Air Max Sneakers July 22, 2024 by Super User Athletic wear brands with their own stores, and retail chains that focus on athletic shoes and apparel, tend to go way over the top with visual bling in their flagship bricks and mortar environments, and this Nike House of Innovation store in Paris is a prime example. There are big, in-your-face visuals everywhere, but what’s …
Video Shows Shopping Experiences And Tech Being Tested For Ikea Stores in Madrid Experience Lab July 16, 2024 by Super User Here’s an interesting little quick-cutting video that shows what’s going on in a Madrid lab that’s testing technologies and store design ideas for global retailing giant Ikea. The Global eXperience Lab (xLab) has now been in operation for a year, testing concepts for the Ingka Group, by far the largest Ikea franchisee on the planet. …
ATM-Topper DOOH Network In U.S. 7-Elevens Rebrands As C-StoreTV; Partners With Vengo As Media Sales Arm July 11, 2024 by Super User A Digital OOH network that has screens in some 8,500 7-Elevens across the US has rebranded as C-StoreTV, and engaged Vengo as its media sales arm. C-StoreTV is rolled into the 60,000 screens Vengo markets across the U.S. and in the U.K., more than half of that in retail. Vengo started out with ad screens …
Proto, Amazon Web Services Collaborate On Text To Hologram(ish) Displays For Retail July 11, 2024 by Super User Are there many retailers who will spend $50K+ USD for a giant LCD that shows products floating around on a transparent screen? I don’t think so, but some people in the cloud computing side of online retailing behemoth Amazon see something I just maybe don’t. Amazon Web Services and LA-based Proto have collaborated on what …
Koreatown Mall In LA Uses Semi-Transparent LED Tower As Visual Landmark And Icon July 10, 2024 by Super User It’s been interesting to watch the evolution and steady improvement of semi-transparent LED mesh displays in the last few years, and this new installation in LA’s Koreatown district is a great example of the current state. It is a 3.9mm pitch display from ClearLED, filling three sides of a window-clad structure (the posts that show …
Nice Product, Baffling Name July 9, 2024 by Super User Perhaps it is a function of me being an age-certified old fart, but I think if you are going to call something a table, it should at least bear some resemblance to what we all know to be a table. Here we have what I think is a nice product with an utterly weird product …
Lift And Learn Retail Application Cleverly Doubles Up As Stock Level Counter July 4, 2024 by Super User People who have been in this industry for many years are likely amused, as I have been, when software and solutions companies demonstrate what they call new and innovative “lift and learn” applications for retail with the same kind of enthusiasm they’d have if they’d invented fire or figured out cold fusion. On-screen content triggered …
Boosted In-Store Digital Experiences Key To Future Retailing: Survey July 3, 2024 by Super User First spotted in AV Interactive … London-based it services and consulting firm Aura – through its retail experiences brand Aura Futures – as published results of a survey that suggest many retail decision-makers see richer, digitally-driven in-store experiences as a means to counteract declining foot traffic counts. The survey, run in April 2024, involved 301 …
New Sydney Retail Development Has What’s Touted As Biggest Curved LED Screen In Southern Hemisphere July 2, 2024 by Super User The shopping mall component of a flashy new mixed-use development in Sydney, Australia sports what is described as the longest digital, curved retail screen in the southern hemisphere. The Halo is a 40-foot wide LED that wraps around the bulkhead of the stairway into what’s called Mall 88, a retail precinct in Sydney’s Lower North Shore. …
Walmart Canada Testing LCD Ribbon SmartShelves That Show Pricing AND Consumer Reviews June 27, 2024 by Super User Walmart’s Canadian operation is running an interesting trial program at its biggest store in the country – using LCD ribbon displays in the crackers section of the grocery department as digital price tags, but also as product reviews. The crackers section has 28 feet of ribbon displays, and pulls consumer product reviews – let’s assume …
