DSE 2023 Mixer Sponsor Profiles: CRI Connects Brands And People In Spaces And Places They Love November 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes The annual Sixteen:Nine networking mixer at DSE is back, set for Dec. 3rd in Las Vegas. It’s sold out, as usual, and we expect to have 350+ Digital Signage Experience attendees showing up for drinks, nibblies and lots of conversations and introductions. The event happens because of the terrific support of sponsors who help cover …
Grocer In Andorra Uses Floor Projection, LED-Wrapped Column To Create Entryway Experience November 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes A grocer in the small principality of Andorra is blended projections on the floor with a big LED-clad support column to put some experience into the arrivals of shoppers. The French retail chain E. Leclerc wanted its store in Andorra (the country is in the Pyrenees on the Spain-France border) to offer a special shopping …
Netflix Planning Bricks And Mortar Attractions To Immerse Fans In Popular Shows (And Sell Stuff) November 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Streaming entertainment giant Netflix is reportedly going a little down the path of Disney and Universal Studios, with plans to start opening bricks and mortar locations that let consumers immerse themselves in aspects of favorite shows. First reported in Bloomberg (paywalled), and picked up by other media outlets, the Netflix House concept would start with …
Old Habits Die Hard At QSR Ordering Positions: CRI Research November 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes Digital signage software and solutions provider Creative Realities, Inc. (aka CRI) has published a detailed set of findings from an online survey this fall that digs into the ordering habits and interests of Americans when they visit fast-food restaurants – with some interesting insights like how diners are pretty set on what they’re going to …
LED Back Wall Dominates Conceptual Shop For Presumably High-End Shoes In Tokyo October 30, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a concept store for the URA apparel brand in a “semi-basement” back lane location in the Harajuku/Jingumae district of Tokyo, VERY minimalist in its design and dominated by a big LED back wall. Arch Daily Reports (warning: art-speak ahead) … The interior of the shop, which weakens the boundary between inside and outside …
Stretched Display Built Into Order Counter Presents Hot Chocolate Options At UK Shop October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an approach to digital menus I haven’t seen before – embedding one of those stretch “bar-type” LCD displays on a tilted stand on the order counter. It’s used by what I guess is a hot chocolate with marshmallow toppings shop in Lincoln, in the UK. There are conventional menu boards up behind the …
Start-Up Cloudshelf Expands Beyond Shopify With API That Works With Most E-Comm Platforms October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK start-up that developed a way to smoothly bridge Shopify small business e-commerce sites to in-store retail kiosks and interactive screens has now come up with a software handshake that works, it says, with just about any e-commerce, CMS, or ERP platform. “We believe that every retailer should be able to create a seamless …
LED Walls Have Now Been Around Long Enough They’re Aging Out – Like This One At Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes It really doesn’t seem that long ago that LED video walls were just emerging on the market, but we’re already seeing projects with walls that are aging out – like this big set of flanking walls at the entry to the upscale Holt-Renfrew store in equally upscale Yorkdale Mall in Toronto. The original wall went …
VSBLTY Advances Deal To Acquire Grocer-Focused Retail Media Operator Shelf Nine October 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes Philly-based VSBLTY has progressed from an LOI to a definitive purchase agreement for retail media network operator Shelf Nine, which has some 4,500 screens running in US groceries. The deal is positioned as a merger and is built around shares, as opposed to a cash transaction. It also appears to get Shelf Nine clear of …
Gucci Uses LED Over Full Facade of Bangkok Airport Store October 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes It took some digging but I eventually sorted out that this is a Gucci store opened last year at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, with LED displays effectively being the wall finishings for the full exterior of the store inside the terminal. I’ve seen a few stores – usually in airports – using LED as part or …
