That Giant LED Statue Concept Finally Finds A First Home January 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Irish company that’s been touting, for a few years now, the idea of giant LED-driven humanoids that show images of famous people has finally found a first home – in a US shopping mall that is all about the bling. A couple of news outlets – including AV Interactive – are reporting that Dublin …
STRATACACHE, Scala Push Deeper Into Retail With New Ordering And Checkouts Capabilities January 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The long-running digital signage software platform Scala has been focused in recent years on retail as its main vertical – and that’s even more the case now with the launch of what’s been called Scala Commerce. It’s a suite of in-store consumer self-service and service automation platforms tuned specifically to the retail, hospitality and closely-related …
First NRF Retail Media Networks Conference Draws NYC Weekend Crowd Of 400+ January 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes There has been a hell of a lot of hype and discussion around retail media networks, but also quite a bit of skepticism about how much of that interest and activity applies to in-store screens, versus retail media on mobile, social and web. An event this weekend in New York, a day ahead of the …
Missed This: Perch Was Acquired By Raydiant Back In Sept. 2022 January 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes Old news, but not to me – the San Francisco software and solutions firm Raydiant acquired Perch back in September 2022. I missed that, but had been wondering recently what had become of NYC-based Perch, which was early in the game packaging up interesting lift and learn merchandising solutions using sensors, overhead projection and displays. …
Visplay, Videri Collaborate On Visual Merchandising System That Snaps Screens Into Electrified Slat Wall January 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes There are companies like Instore Screen and Bluefin manufacturing custom displays that work with the physical set-up of store fixtures, but I don’t recall seeing a set-up that works larger displays into a retail-focused slat wall. That’s one of the modular options that a German visual merchandising company, Visplay, is marketing with a product called …
Big Electronic Shelf Label Vendor SES-imagotag Rebrands As VusionGroup Ahead Of NRF January 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the better-known names in the electronic shelf labels market will have to do some work on building back awareness after announcing a re-brand, with SES-imagotag changing its handle to VusionGroup. The new brand rolls the ESL side of the French company’s business in with a broader solution called Vusion. From PR: SES-imagotag will …
Apparel Retailer Uses Big LED Header As Product-Explainer In LA Flagship January 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes Big screens in fashion retail is nothing new, but I like how the body-positivity retailer Good American has worked a big LED header into the overall store design for a flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA. The store – opened last summer – has a custom 31.5-feet-wide LED ribbon that runs …
Hologram-ish Santa Offers Gift Ideas To Holiday Travelers At A Toronto Airport January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
