Velocity Marks Halfway Point In 4,000 Screen Rollout On Redbox DVD Rental Units December 3, 2021 by Super User Probably like many to most people, I kind of assumed the DVD and gaming rental business was largely a thing of the past, and people just streamed movies and downloaded games. But a company called Redbox has some 4,000 vending machine stations across the U.S. – half now that have digital signage screens that promote …
Toronto Mega-Mall Uses PORTL’s Hologram-ish Displays To Run Virtual Fashion Shows Through Holiday Season December 3, 2021 by Super User (Image: Dustin Fuhs) An “activation” that’s somewhere between interesting and gimmick-y used one of PORTL’s transparent LCD set-ups to do a virtualized fashion show at one of Canada’s biggest shopping malls, starting this week and running through the holiday season. The retail property owner Cadillac Fairview has one of the shower-stall like set-ups in the …
Citizen Watch Uses Transparent OLED To Create AR-ish Product Display In Macy’s November 30, 2021 by Super User Citizen Watch, which makes guess what, has set up a dedicated store-within-a-store merchandising area in the timepiece section of the flagship Macy’s store in NYC, doing what it suggests is “one of the world’s first consumer-facing augmented reality product display cases.” The area has several displays, including a 3 by 1 flat panel video wall. …
Chinese Mall Uses Transparent LED Light Rings As Atrium Canopy November 30, 2021 by Super User Here’s a very different, interesting take on the idea of LED canopy ceilings in places like malls and public buildings – a series of suspended circles that are animated by transparent LED. It is a mall somewhere in Asia, and uses the transparent LED mesh product from NEXNOVO. The mall atrium has a series of …
Adidas First Terrex Flagship Store For Europe Appears To Go Big With LED Canopies November 29, 2021 by Super User I could be corrected, but looking at these photos and thinking about what seems to happen with sports retailer flagship stores, it appears the first Adidas Terrex flagship store for Europe uses a lot of LED video wall to drive the shopper experience. The store opened last week in central Munich. Terrex sells products related …
Check Out The Emerald – A Different, Architectural Take On Center-Hung LED Ad Displays November 23, 2021 by Super User Four-sided LED displays suspended from ceilings are common in sports venues and seen here and there in the common areas of public spaces, but I haven’t seen one done like this ad display in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The London-based media company blowUP Media calls its display The Emerald and it is a visual …
Canada Goose Relies Heavily On Digital To Drive Experience In New Footwear Stores November 19, 2021 by Super User The Canadian apparel brand Canada Goose – best known for its pricey, goose down-stuffed winter parkas – has now expanded into high-performance winter footwear and added new experiential components to select stores. For the recent global launch, “Canada Goose wanted to deliver immersive, and engaging integrated brand experiences that would emotionally connect with customers bringing …
WHSmith Store Uses Massive Digital Facade For New London Stansted Airport Store November 18, 2021 by Super User Technical details have eluded me, but what I do know is the just-opened WHSmith store at London Stansted Airport went all-in with digital – with a huge, all-digital facade facing the concourse and screens all through the store. The travel retail focused online publication Moodie Davitt Report was at the store opening Wednesday and filed …
WaitTime Expands Crowd Analytics Service Into Mega-Malls In Cisco-Intel Partnership November 17, 2021 by Super User The load-balancing outcomes the Detroit start-up WaitTime brings to sports and entertainment venues has always seemed like a smart play, but I am not sure about the company’s new partnership with tech giants Cisco and Intel for places like giant shopping malls. The three have “collaborated to deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that provides …
Finn Telecoms Retailer Greets Customers With OLED Display Canopy November 10, 2021 by Super User Via Invidis The Finnish telecommunications group Elisa has a store in Helsinki’s Mall of Tripla, quite close to its headquarters building. The shop is interesting, reports my friends at the German language publisher invidis, because it is using LG’s wallpaper-thin, flexible OLED displays as a canopy above shoppers as they walk in. Next to an …
