Digital Explainer Screens Key Parts Of First Whole Foods “Just Walk Out” Store February 25, 2022 by Super User High-end grocery retailer Whole Foods Market has opened its first store using Amazon’s frictionless Just Walk Out Shopping technology – a 21,500-square-foot store in Washington, D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood. The store, which opened Wednesday, is the first of two Whole Foods Market stores expected to open this year that use the cashier-free technology developed by …
Hughes Wins BurgerFi Deal Bundling Digital Signage With Network Infrastructure, Managed Services February 24, 2022 by Super User Here’s a good example of how a service provider can win digital signage deals by also bringing a lot of other capabilities to the dance – Hughes Network Systems enabling the guest experience in the BurgerFi restaurant chain by providing all the networking technology, signage software and managed services. The fast casual chain and a …
Subtle Mini Projection On Tabletop Fixture Helps Market Lab-Grown Diamonds February 14, 2022 by Super User A lot of what gets attention these days in digital signage and pro AV has to do with scale – the biggest this or that. Here’s something quite effective in retail at small, almost miniature scale. It’s a tabletop projection display by Dallas-based Glass Media for the lab-grown diamond brand Clear Origin. I don’t have …
Wing Stop Rolls Out Smart Digital Menu Displays Across Growing UK Footprint February 9, 2022 by Super User It now seems odd to see a QSR chain that is NOT using digital menu boards and other displays in their stores and in drive-thrus, but a deployment of screens across the UK estate of a wings and fries chain is interesting on a couple of counts. Wingstop UK (managed by Lemon Pepper Holdings ltd) …
Dubai Outdoor Shopping Complex Upgrades 40 Display Network February 8, 2022 by Super User It’s Dubai, where just about everything done is over the top and budget restraint is an abstract concept, but nonetheless this is an interesting look at how large format digital signage can dominate an outdoor retail development. The development is call The Beach and is in the lux Jumeirah Beach area of Dubai, along the …
Japanese 7-Elevens Testing Floating Virtual Screens For Touchless Transactions January 31, 2022 by Super User On the heels of word that a fast casual restaurant chain in Quebec is testing touchless self-service ordering kiosks comes news of 7-Eleven deploying test units of a touchless payment station in some of its Japanese stores. The program involves six different technology companies, with a division of Toshiba guiding the program. From a Japanese …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Super User The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Super User The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
LED Goes Mainstream: Now There Are LED Video Walls In Car Washes January 25, 2022 by Super User If you needed more evidence for your argument that LED video wall technology has shifted from being a specialty product to a mainstream one, consider the Niagara Carwash chain in Germany, which is putting large-ish video walls inside those facilities. The German publisher and consultancy Invidis reports: The branches of Niagara Carwash are intended to …
Amazon Launching Bricks And Mortar Apparel Store, With Fitting Room Touchscreens As Hubs January 21, 2022 by Super User Amazon is planning to open its first bricks and mortar store dedicated to apparel, and one of the key components of the in-store customer experience will be touchscreens. The first Amazon Style store will be in suburban LA and will open later this year – showing women’s and men’s apparel, shoes, and accessories from a …
