Proto Launches RetailSage, Pairing Hologram-ish Displays With Conversational AI January 18, 2024 by Super User The company that originated (as far as I can tell) the idea of using transparent LCD displays as life-sized hologram-ish visual illusions has now worked conversational AI into its expanding product offer. LA-based Proto, known in its earlier days as Portl, was at NRF in New York earlier this week and announced what it calls …
Shoes And Bags Designer Kurt Geiger Makes 24 Sq. Meter LED Video Focal Point Of London Flagship January 18, 2024 by Super User A Linkedin post by UK solutions provider Pixel Inspiration reminded me of a forgotten photo I shot while walking along London’s busy Oxford Street on a visit last fall – a big and impressive video wall in the flagship for London-based shoe designer Kurt Geiger. It is a 24 square meter display at the service …
PRN, Place Exchange Strike Deal For Programmatic Ads In Retail Screen Networks January 18, 2024 by Super User I could put up posts almost daily about partnership announcements involving programmatic adtech firms and network operators, but then I’d have to decode what the programatic people are going on and on about. But once in a while one of these announcements is kind of interesting because of who is involved – in this case …
That Giant LED Statue Concept Finally Finds A First Home January 17, 2024 by Super User The Irish company that’s been touting, for a few years now, the idea of giant LED-driven humanoids that show images of famous people has finally found a first home – in a US shopping mall that is all about the bling. A couple of news outlets – including AV Interactive – are reporting that Dublin …
STRATACACHE, Scala Push Deeper Into Retail With New Ordering And Checkouts Capabilities January 16, 2024 by Super User The long-running digital signage software platform Scala has been focused in recent years on retail as its main vertical – and that’s even more the case now with the launch of what’s been called Scala Commerce. It’s a suite of in-store consumer self-service and service automation platforms tuned specifically to the retail, hospitality and closely-related …
First NRF Retail Media Networks Conference Draws NYC Weekend Crowd Of 400+ January 15, 2024 by Super User There has been a hell of a lot of hype and discussion around retail media networks, but also quite a bit of skepticism about how much of that interest and activity applies to in-store screens, versus retail media on mobile, social and web. An event this weekend in New York, a day ahead of the …
Missed This: Perch Was Acquired By Raydiant Back In Sept. 2022 January 12, 2024 by Super User Old news, but not to me – the San Francisco software and solutions firm Raydiant acquired Perch back in September 2022. I missed that, but had been wondering recently what had become of NYC-based Perch, which was early in the game packaging up interesting lift and learn merchandising solutions using sensors, overhead projection and displays. …
Visplay, Videri Collaborate On Visual Merchandising System That Snaps Screens Into Electrified Slat Wall January 12, 2024 by Super User There are companies like Instore Screen and Bluefin manufacturing custom displays that work with the physical set-up of store fixtures, but I don’t recall seeing a set-up that works larger displays into a retail-focused slat wall. That’s one of the modular options that a German visual merchandising company, Visplay, is marketing with a product called …
Big Electronic Shelf Label Vendor SES-imagotag Rebrands As VusionGroup Ahead Of NRF January 12, 2024 by Super User One of the better-known names in the electronic shelf labels market will have to do some work on building back awareness after announcing a re-brand, with SES-imagotag changing its handle to VusionGroup. The new brand rolls the ESL side of the French company’s business in with a broader solution called Vusion. From PR: SES-imagotag will …
Apparel Retailer Uses Big LED Header As Product-Explainer In LA Flagship January 10, 2024 by Super User Big screens in fashion retail is nothing new, but I like how the body-positivity retailer Good American has worked a big LED header into the overall store design for a flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA. The store – opened last summer – has a custom 31.5-feet-wide LED ribbon that runs …
