7-Eleven Japan Rolling Computer Vision-Informed Retail Media Network Across 500 Stores May 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Japanese wing of convenience store giant 7-Eleven is rolling out what looks and sounds like a retail media network in 500 locations around that country, placing a big emphasis on in-store analytics by using a Sony computer vision platform. The retail giant is using the edge AI-sensing platform AITRIOS developed and supported by Sony …
US Grocer Save Mart’s Retail Media Network Starts Testing Impacts Of In-Aisle Screens May 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes The volume of announcements lately about retailers launching their own media networks is staggering, as is the diversity of operators. I just saw a reference yesterday to a retail media network for Chuck E. Cheese, which for people outside North America is a themed play center/restaurant for kids. I suppose anything can be a media …
AI And The Other Technologies Helping Shape Experience In Auto Retailing April 25, 2024 by Robert Orndorff Guest Post: Robert Orndorff, Spectrio Customer experience, both pre and post sale, has always been at the heart of successful auto dealer operations, and steadily evolving display technologies are an increasingly big part of how those experiences are delivered and optimized. Screens in showrooms and waiting lounges are mainstays in most dealer environments, but emerging …
UK Firm Demos More Sensible Approach To Screens In Retail Chiller Fridges April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes A UK retail hardware solutions firm called Theravada is at the Retail Technology Show in London this week, among many vendors, and is showing what it calls a Digital Food To Go Cabinet. It’s interesting because it is a more sensible approach to the idea of blending digital displays with retail infrastructure like chiller fridges. …
Scala Gets Healthy Crowd For Its Retail Media Networks Day In London April 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes It looks like Scala got a healthy crowd out to its retail media networks learning day in London, run today ahead of the Retail Technology Show that starts tomorrow. The What’s in Store for Retail Media Networks is a UK spin on a retail media network-focused one-day conference that Scala’s parent company STRATACACHE did ahead …
Huge Digital Mirror Adds Experience In Sevilla Shopping Mall April 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes This has been operating for a while, but I just stumbled across it this morning … It’s about the biggest digital mirror I have seen to date, in a shopping mall in Sevilla, Spain. Most of the displays I have seen that have a digital layer behind the glass have been in dressing rooms and …
LED Mainstreamed: A Retail POP Fixture On A Pallet, With A Display On Its Front Face April 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have seen merchandising tables in big box environments like Best Buy and even Costco that have LED displays below the counter, so to speak, to draw attention and market product – but in another sign of this stuff being mainstreamed, it’s now being used for temporary POP displays on pallets that get plopped in …
Paris Mall Refreshes 250 Sq. Meters Of LED For DOOH-Focused “New Digital Dream” April 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The operators of one of the larger shopping malls in Europe and its OOH media partner pushed a big red symbolic button last week to officially turn on 250 sq. meters of new LED display in its central courtyard, under the name New Digital Dream. The display set-up includes a big feature screen intended to …
Scala Staging Retail Media Networks Conference Ahead Of Next Week’s Retail Tech Show In London April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE had a packed room back in January when it tried out running a retail media network-focused one-day conference ahead of the NRF retail tech show in New York, so now the company is doing the same thing next week in London. Scala, which is owned by STRATACACHE and has higher brand recognition across the …
French ISP Free Opens Screen-Filled Experiential Concept Store In Paris-Area Mall April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The French internet services provider Free has opened a new concept store in a big mall just outside Paris that uses a lot of digital display and interactive to celebrate gaming – built on the idea that gaming is better and people are “Free To Play” when they have smoking-fast fiber connections and WiFi 7 …
