Tokyo Airport Duty-Free Uses LED All The Way Down To Merchandising Counters July 7, 2021 by Super User It’s rare to see a new-build store kitted out with digital displays BEFORE it gets merchandised and opened up, so this is an interesting little video showing fine pitch LED used all over a duty-free shop at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The duty-free is working with the Shenzhen-based but Japanese market-focused LED firm Shisai Optoelectronics. The …
Global Consumers Increasingly Comfy With Return To Physical Stores: Research July 7, 2021 by Super User The retail-focused solutions provider Mood Media has released new research looking at shopper sentiments globally, finding 80% of consumers are now comfy with the idea of returning to physical stores, up from 71% in 2020. The report – Shopper Sentiments: A June 2021 Global Mood Survey – was done by Censuswide, surveying more than 8,000 …
World’s Most Beautiful (Arguably) Store Re-Opens With Precious Little Digital Display, And That Makes Sense June 30, 2021 by Super User What’s being described as the world’s most beautiful department store (they’ve clearly never been in the Kohl’s in Amherst, NY) has opened – or more accurately re-opened – in Paris, and what’s interesting to me is how much or how little digital display gets put in when design leads and budget is no serious obstacle. …
Samsung Launches Its 24″ All-In-One Kiosk And Supporting Software Partner Ecosystem June 30, 2021 by Super User
Sport Direct’s Oxford Street Flagship In London Has 100M Pixels Of Digital Display June 22, 2021 by Super User There are exceptions, but in general terms the one retail vertical that pretty consistently goes to town with screens in stores is sports and recreation. You don’t typically see new builds and renos for clothing, grocery or mass merchandise putting screens all over the place, but that definitely still happens in sports retailing. A lot …
Paving The Path To Smart Retail Media – Building On A Future Foundation June 21, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Laura Davis-Taylor, inReality Embracing the store as a valid media channel is finally coming of age, and our industry is at a crossroads: build it on the principles of the past, or pivot to position it for maximum value, profit and cross-channel value. The religious debate at hand is if the model to …
Purina Puts Some 200 Lift And Learn Digital End Caps In US Midwest Groceries June 18, 2021 by Super User This is an interactive end-cap for big box stores that uses sensors and a touch screen, as well as print graphics, to get shoppers learning more about a line of pet food products. Ther end-caps are in some 200 supermarkets in the US midwest, in a program for Purina put together by the NYC-based interactive …
Huawei Flagship Stores In EU Using LED Chandeliers As Design Centerpieces June 15, 2021 by Super User The retail design firm Lonsdale is doing some interesting work with what is described as LED chandeliers in Huawei retail stores in Europe. The Chinese tech manufacturer’s flagship stores in Paris and Berlin have tall LED sculptures as centerpieces in the store design – with custom LED strips, clad with mirrored frames, suspended vertically and …
Store-filling LED Wall Lights Up Chocolate Ship in Schiphol Airport June 14, 2021 by Super User Big DV LED video walls in retail are growing increasingly common, but in many cases the visual impact is limited by the sheer size of the store. Here’s a case where the LED is almost as big as the store, so it has a massive visual impact. It is the new Tony’s Chocolonely store post-security …
McDonald’s Sued Over Use Of AI In Drive-Thru Lanes June 11, 2021 by Super User QSR giant McDonald’s is being sued in its home state over its use of AI-driven recognition technologies in the drive-thru lane, with the court file citing invasion of privacy. The customer is arguing that McDonald’s company violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by not getting prior approval before using voice recognition technology in the …
