Krispy Kreme’s London Flagship Uses Screens To Drive Its Doughnuts Experience February 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK software firm Embed Signage has pushed out a nice video that shows the use of its solutions in the London Oxford Street flagship location of Krispy Kreme, the US chain known for mouth-melting, lethally good, warm, glazed, yeast doughnuts. The new store has a series of tiled flat panel menu and promotions displays …
Wi-Charge’s Cord-Cutting Gen 3 Wireless Shelf-Edge Retail Screens Are Sleeker, Offer More Features February 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Israeli firm Wi-Charge has launched a third-generation of its retail-focused wireless video displays – small 5 and 7-inch units meant mount at the front of in-aisle shelves and with end-caps. The display units are skinny LCDs that can easily be mounted and moved around as needed, since they don’t rely on wiring – regular …
UK’s Foot Asylum Makes Big Visual Statement With LED Columns At New Birmingham Store February 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Few retail subsets go to town with digital display like those marketing athletic wear – and this is a big, loud example of that in Birmingham’s Bullring, the largest city center shopping mall in the UK. Footasylum moved into newly available space in the mall and followed the store’s new design concept that has been …
Retail Screen Operator DART Innovation Acquired By Marketing Experience Giant Quad February 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes The guys behind little DART Innovation in North Carolina have realized a nice little exit from the business, being acquired by a firm that describes itself as a $3 billion global marketing experience company. Quad, based outside of Milwaukee, has bought the in-store digital media solutions provider as a strategic investment, with plans to expand …
Dubai Mall Lights Up Massive 980 Sq. M. LED Wall February 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is touted as the biggest indoor LED screen on the planet, taking out what had been described as the biggest OLED video wall on the planet. It is, of course, in bling-loving, deep-pocketed Dubai, at the vast Dubai Mall. The LG OLED wall only went live in 2017, in front of the mall’s aquarium, …
STRATACACHE Now Driving More Than 100K Digital Drive-Thru Screens; Expects To Double That In Year January 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes The digital signage solutions provider STRATACACHE hit a big milestone recently, with more than 100,000 digital drive-thru displays running off its software and hardware, including outdoor displays from the company’s own final assembly facility in Ohio. The Dayton, OH company says its AMP software, Spectra media players and Elevate outdoor display enclosure solutions for the …
Samsung, Chevron Testing AI-Driven Virtual Advisor For Buying Wine … At A C-Store??? January 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Buying wine at a convenience store strikes me as the kind of thing semi-desperate, had-a-bad-day people do when regular options like grocery or liquor stores are unavailable, or not on the way. C-stores aren’t really the sort of place where the buying decisions are gratefully shaped by the recommendations of a sommelier. But that’s kinda …
Proto Launches RetailSage, Pairing Hologram-ish Displays With Conversational AI January 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
