Court Filings On $200M Lawsuit Filed By Cooler Screens Against Walgreens Detail A Big Freaking Mess June 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes An industry friend sent me a copy of the complaint filed with an Illinois court regarding the dispute between US chain drug giant Walgreens and Cooler Screens, the DOOH start-up that was retrofitting the store’s chiller sections with custom-made transparent LCD screens embedded in the doors. It’s a big freaking $200 million mess. The heavily …
Wi-Charge Launches 7-Inch Retail Marketing Display Powered Without Wires May 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the biggest challenges with putting digital displays in retail at the point of decision for shoppers – in the aisles and in other merchandising positions – has been finding ways to power the screens without adding a lot of costly electrical infrastructure. It’s changing with new-build retail, but a hell of a lot …
Watch: Miami-Area Resort Lobby Pairs Rainfall Water Feature With Projection-Driven Multimedia Experience May 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Multimedia installations have sometimes supplanted fountains and other water features in office, mall and hotel lobbies because digital is changeable and problems with digital are usually much easier than problems with pumps and filters, but here’s a casino resort lobby that blends sync’d lighting and projection with a giant rain head shower feature. It …
Wavy LED Canopy Drives Experience In At Chinese Porsche Showroom May 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of digital display for a new Porsche Studio urban auto dealer showcase in Changsha, a city of some 10 million people in Central China. There is a big flexible LED canopy, or almost like a flying carpet, suspended over the showroom and visible from the street. If I am reading …
LED-Driven Silhouettes Drive Experience At New Nike Store In Antwerp May 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo: TDM Space Athletic wear retail seems to always have a lot of screens and visual energy, but this new Rise store for Nike in Antwerp, Belgium does things a little differently, with an upper level that uses big, full motion silhouettes on the walls. The store has LED tickers, big product and branding displays …
Books Tumble Off Shelf On This Great LED Retail Facade At Qatar’s Flashy New Airport May 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes As LED costs have lowered and awareness among architects and retail space designs has increased, we’ve started to see some premium locations of stores replace conventional facades with digital versions – and this is a great example of a brand using creative to really work with the physical set-up. It is a Day2Day newsstand-style store …
Wendy’s Working With Google To Test Voice AI At Drive-Thru Ordering Stations May 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes QSR giant Wendy’s is going to pilot an AI-driven bot that will handle the voice ordering process in drive-thru lanes, with the goal of speeding up ordering times and improving accuracy. A trial is set to run at a Wendy’s in Columbus, Ohio, where the burger chain has its head office. The trial will be …
Embedded LED Lights Up Huge Glass Diamond At Chinese Mega-Mall Entry May 5, 2023 by Dave Haynes This may be the most impressive application I’ve seen to date that uses LED embedded in glass curtain walls – a shopping mall in China that has a vast, irregular-shaped glass curtain wall at its main entry. The structure is a little bit diamond-shaped, a little bit seemingly inspired by architect Frank Gehry’s work. There …
UK IT Services Firm Markets Digital Signage As Output, Like Print, From Software Suite May 5, 2023 by Dave Haynes A UK-based IT services company that focuses on retail solutions software is marketing a broad communications suite that includes digital signage capabilities, and warning potential customers to not “go down the rabbit hole” of using narrow-purpose digital signage software platforms. ECS Global says its Enterprise Communication Suite platform – called ECS5 – is a retail …
Irregular Stacked LED Totem In Window Attracts Attention For Perfume Brand’s Store May 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Digital window displays are increasingly common, but I’ve not seen many that really play with the shape to attract attention. This is a uniquely-shaped LED set-up used by the luxury perfume brand Xerjoff for shops in Milan. The irregular stacked display uses a custom metal frame developed by the Italian solutions provider Getled. The LED …
