German Apparel Retail Fills Flagship Store Window With Transparent LED April 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Spectrio Launches RMN Gateway To Turn In-Store Digital Signage Screens Into Revenue-Generating Assets March 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes Tampa-based digital signage software and systems provider Spectrio has boosted its capabilities for targeted retail customers with the launch of what the company calls RMN Gateway, which enables businesses to transform their in-store screen networks into revenue-generating retail media networks (RMNs). RMN Gateway enables retailers to monetize digital touchpoints like shelf-edge and end-cap screens by …
Automaker Renault Uses LED-First Future Stores For Pop-Up London Showroom For EV March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’m not through London that often, so it’s not clear to me if the hyper-ambitious, LED-first Future Stores pop-up experiential retail set-up on Oxford Street is steadily or only periodically booked. The Future Stores website suggests the Renault event on March 22-30 in the flashy high street store is the first since a Nordic fashion …
Video: Aussie QSR Using Conversational Voice AI To Process Drive-Thru Orders March 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes There have been numerous stories in the last couple of years of some of the largest quick service restaurant chains out there working with tech giants on AI-driven voice ordering in the drive-thru lanes, but I’ve not seen much about smaller regional QSRs having the resources or business ties to also test and possibly adopt …
