Proto, Amazon Web Services Collaborate On Text To Hologram(ish) Displays For Retail July 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Dubai Retailer Lines Store’s Upper-Level With Semi-Transparent LED Display Tech June 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes A home furnishings retailer in Dubai is using those semi-transparent, wafer-thin LED displays on the upper levels of its store. What’s interesting here is how the set-up enables the retailer to create something of digital billboard, without impairing the view in or out of the main level of the store. The LED wafers are attached …
PRN Plans 100+ New Retail Media Networks Jobs In Owner STRATACACHE’s HQ City June 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Premier Retail Networks (PRN) says it will be creating more than 100 jobs by opening a new “Sales Center of Excellence” that will be geared to rolling out and supporting in-store retail media networks in the U.S. and globally. The PRN Sales Center will be located in downtown Dayton, OH, which also happens to be …
Video: Retailer Good American’s Screen-Filled LA Flagship June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in January about retailer Good American’s display-filled flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA, and now the tech company providing the displays and management software has pushed out a video that does a good job of showing the what, why and hows of the set-up. Samsung provides both the …
