Germany’s Cyreen Puts Intelligence In Shopping Carts To Track In-Store Screen And Marketing Impacts March 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Our German language content partners invidis had a post up recently about a Frankfurt start-up called Cyreen, which consumer behavior analytics for retail environments, and is touting the sales impacts of retail media screens. Cyreen’s retail media technology – Connecting Ad-Impressions with a Purchase (CAP) – has the ability to tie in-store messaging impressions down …
Surge Pricing Comes To QSR, Enabled By Digital Menu Displays March 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes In the early days of digital signage, management software and screens were promoted as a way for quick service restaurant operators to much more easily and quickly change what was on the menus posted behind order counters – notably removing things like breakfast items that are unavailable the balance of a day. Years on, with …
Telecine, YCD Partner On Custom On-Premise TV Channels For Retail Banking March 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Solutions provider Telecine and software developer YCD Multimedia have developed a partner product that is, in effect, a financial news TV channel customized for banks. Called RAMP Up! , the product is intended to provide steadily updated information-you-can-use content to screens in retail banking scenarios, leveraging the data feeds and produced content of Bloomberg News, …
16 Sq. Meter MicroLED Wall Greets Shoppers At Belgian Mall March 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes I’ve not seen or read a lot of PR about actual deployments of super-premium microLED products like Samsung’s The Wall, but there are indeed end-customers out there, including this shopping mall near Antwerp, Belgium. It’s at the Waasland Shopping Center and is measured at 16 square meters. It appears to be fixed along a corridor, …
Outform Showing Digital Mannequins At EuroShop That Borrow On Those Transparent Hologram-Ish Displays March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes The retail design and visual merchandising firm Outform is at the giant Euroshop trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany this week showing, among many things, an interesting variation on those shower stall-like transparent LCD displays. In this case, the life-sized units are being marketed as Digital Mannequins, as opposed to (not really) holograms. The Miami-based company’s …
NoviSign, Partners Create Spin-Out JV Company – ReaLo – Focused on Turnkey Digital Retail Solutions February 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Three Israeli companies that all come at retail from differing angles have partnered on a new firm, called ReaLo, that makes end-to-end retail marketing/merchandising services available to customers. ReaLo, says PR, will support its customers end to end from the planning stage, through implementation and installation and up to ongoing full support, using its unique …
PUMA Uses See-Thru LED To Attract, Create Vibe For Singapore Flagship Store February 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a nice example of how mesh LED technology has matured and thinned out to a level that it works very effectively for retail environments – in this case the first and largest PUMA flagship store in Southeast Asia. The design goal for the store on Singapore’s upscale Orchard Road is to “mirror Puma’s …
Delphi Display Systems Acquired By Another Restaurant-Focused Tech Firm, Toast February 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Delphi Display Systems, which has been mainly focused on a variety of menu and ordering screens for the QSR sector, has been acquired by Toast, a Boston cloud-based software company that likens its products to a restaurant operating system. “As the needs of guests rapidly evolve and the importance of developing incremental revenue streams grows, …
LED Wall’s Generative Artwork Responds To Customers At H&M London Flagship February 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes The fashion retail brand H&M’s Regent Street flagship is using generative artwork on a giant LED wall that fills the full rear wall of the store on one of London’s fancier shopping streets. “Digital experience designers” Hirsch & Mann collaborated with the creative coding studio Variable to create a constantly evolving, generative artwork that interacts …
Chart: Who Is The Biggest Of Them All In DOOH & Retail Media? February 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes Merchant banking firm Solomon Partners – which through partner Mark Boidman is very active in guiding M&A in the DOOH sector – has published an interesting but probably flawed graphic that details what are the biggest place-based digital OOH and retail media networks in the U.S. market. The list of 16 companies details network size …