Midwest Grocer Hy-Vee Opts In On Grocery TV Platform For In-Store Media Network; While Appearing To Opt Out On Samsung’s VXT December 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is intriguing – the Midwest US grocer chain Hy-Vee has announced a partnership with the in-store media network Grocery TV to deploy what it says could be 10,000+ screens across more than 400 stores. That big roll-out comes a bit more than a year after Samsung made a bunch of marketing noise about Hy-Vee using …
McDonald’s Opens Corporate Store In LA That Has No Lobby Or, By The Looks Of It, Drive-Thru Displays December 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes QSR giant McDonald’s is testing a store format in LA that has no dine-in area but also appears, at least, to not rely on outdoor drive-thru displays for taking orders. The trade publication QSR picked up on a social media post from a McDonald’s franchisee that points out a new-build prototype format that uses a …
STRATACACHE’S Chris Riegel Details Opportunities And Deadly Sins Of In-Store Retail Media December 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes If your company is chasing the retail media networks dream in some fashion – as a vendor, operator or even a brand – this podcast is well worth a listen. It is a nearly one-hour long interview with Chris Riegel of STRATACACHE, talking about the state of retail media networks, its scale and possibilities, and …
Shifting From Chipsets To Vegan Sneakers: London’s LED-Filled Future Stores Gets New Tenant December 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes Intel has moved out and a VERY different brand has moved in to that hyper-ambitious immersive retailing pop-up store in central London. The new short-term tenant at the LED-dominated Futures Stores, on London’s Oxford Street, is the Scandinavian “urban-lux vegan trainer and apparel brand LØCI” – with substantial help and shared branding by the social …
UK Grocer Nicely Fits Digital Signage New Store’s Overall Look And Feel December 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a modest but well-executed example of how screens can be integrated into a retail design, as opposed to the many examples still popping up of screens just kind of stuck in where they fit or dropped from ceilings. It is at a roadway-side Sainsbury’s grocery that’s tied in with a petrol station, in a …
Most Retail Media Networks Will Fight For Ad Spend Table Scraps In 2025: eMarketer Forecast December 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The wave of retail media networks launched in the U.S. and elsewhere in the past couple of years may soon start washing back out to sea, as industry watchers see far too many smaller networks fighting for the limited retail ad spend dollars not going to Amazon and Walmart. The market research firm eMarketer says …
Scala Opens First Of What It Says Will Be Several Satellite Showrooms Across Europe November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes There’s nothing unusual about digital signage CMS software companies having showrooms, but they’re almost always located somewhere in the head office building. The CMS software firm Scala does that, with a showroom space in its European head office in the Netherlands, but now it is also opening showrooms in regional locations – the first one …
New Downtown Toronto Bank Branch Draws Eyes With Some 250 Sq. Meters Of LED Display In Windows November 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Chinese display manufacturer Muxwave will soon have another high-profile reference case for its in-window LED mesh displays – the windows of a new street-level branch of the Bank of Montreal in downtown Toronto. The branch, set to open Monday, is tied in with Toronto Eaton Centre, the busiest mall in Canada. It is at …
Grocery TV Says New Tie-Up Pushes Its Retail Media Network Footprint Past 5,000 Stores November 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Austin, TX-based start-up Grocery TV says a new deal with an east coast US regional grocer will get the company’s overall installed base past 5,000, involving about 100 different grocers. The new deal is with Redner’s Markets, an employee-owned regional grocery chain with 44 stores across Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. Redner’s will leverage Grocery TV’s in-house technology …
Dubai Mall Adds Shape-Shifting LED Halo Rings To Busy Atrium Area November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The sprawling Dubai Mall in Guess Where, UAE has added yet more digital bling – commissioning and seeing installed a five-ring LED halo sculpture suspended over the shopping center’s Fashion Catwalk Atrium. Each of 3.9mm pitch Daktronics LED halo rings measures 0.75 meters high by 24 meters in circumference. Halo LEDs are kinda sorta common, …
