Hologram-ish Santa Offers Gift Ideas To Holiday Travelers At A Toronto Airport January 4, 2024 by Super User I’ve not seen a lot of real-world retail uses for those big transparent LCD shower stall-like displays marketed as holograms, but here’s an interesting pop-up example of one used during the Christmas season in the T3 terminal of Toronto’s main airport. Retail operator Paradies Lagardère – which has a big footprint in airports, hotels and …
Double-Curved LED Store Facade, Winding LED Ribbons Light Up Duty-Free At Abu Dhabi’s Expanded Airport January 4, 2024 by Super User This is a nice project involving the duty-free operator at Abu Dhabi’s main airport – with the main highlights a clever “double-curved” digital facade and big curving LED ribbon inside the store. The entry to the store has a half-circle tight-pitch LED that is curved both vertically and horizontally – like part of a sphere, …
McDonald’s In Barcelona Adapts Queue Management-Style Window Screens To Enforce Order For Scooter Delivery Pickups January 3, 2024 by Super User I was intrigued two or three years ago to learn about a QSR operation – I forget which one – that was using digital signage displays in the back-0f-house food prep area to let staff know the anticipated arrival time of delivery vehicles that were tied to GPS and apps, notably Uber Eats. Now that …
Digital Signage-Driven Sook Pop-Up Stores Cease Operations January 2, 2024 by Super User Well this makes me sad … the UK start-up that was using digital signage technology as the core visual marketing feature of a set of short-term rental pop-up stores has ceased operations. The company, called Sook, had what I thought was the clever idea of establishing small, ready-to-use retail stores on UK high streets that …
NRF’s Big Show In January Now Preceded By Full-Day Retail Media Networks Conference December 19, 2023 by Super User Discussion of retail media networks has really accelerated in the past year or so, and while a lot of that discussion has been much more about online and mobile, in-store displays are also getting a lot more attention as being part of the marketing mix. There’s enough noise about the topic that the National Retail …
Watch: 164 Smartphones Stacked Like Christmas Tree To Create Unique Video Wall December 14, 2023 by Super User This is a fun retail project in Chile that somehow or other sync’s up 164 Samsung Galaxy smartphones to deliver messages on a digital Christmas tree. The set-up uses Novisign’s CMS software and its “Screen Sync” to get all the phones mapped and capable of behaving like a very big and complicated video wall, except …
Staying On Top Of Seasonal Promotions And Messaging Gets Easier, More Accurate, Using Digital Signage December 14, 2023 by Emily McCue Baldeschwiler Guest Post: Emily McCue Baldeschwiler, Spectrio There is a lot more to seasonality in retailing and food services than spring, summer, fall and winter, and digital signage technology offers a way for operators to not only stay on top of all the changes seasonality requires, but also profit from them. Consumers are familiar with products and …
Black Rifle Coffee Starts Rolling Out CRI’s Digital Signage Solution Across Its Chain December 13, 2023 by Super User Creative Realities, Inc. has announced a deal that will see its digital signage solutions built in to the customer experience for locations of Black Rifle Coffee, a US coffee chain that has close ties with active-duty military members, veterans, and first responders. The solution is in place in a new-design store, and the intention is …
Showcase Cinemas Sees 20% Lift In Food And Bev Sales After 568 Screen Modernization December 12, 2023 by Super User Wide ribbons of digital menu displays isn’t an overly new feature in the cinema business, but what’s interesting with a rollout across the Showcase Cinemas U.S. estate is word that the screens generate a 20% lift in sales at moviehouse snack counters. One of the world’s oldest and most recognized global theatre chains out there, …
Huge Digital Facade Draws Eyes To Canadian Outerwear Brand Arc’teryx’s Toronto Flagship December 12, 2023 by Super User This is a very impressive digital facade for the Canadian outerwear brand Arc’teryx, which has a flagship store in Toronto’s high-end Yorkdale Mall. I’ve seen lots of digital facades popping up in retail as LED has, in tandem, become less costly and more durable. But I’ve not seen one done at this kind of scale …
