London’s Decaying Battersea Power Station Brought Back To Life As Mixed-Use Development October 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes The old Battersea Power Station – a huge coal-powered electric generation station along the Thames in London – has been revived after decades of sitting derelict, opening up 10 days ago as a mixed-use development that includes retail, dining and high-end residential. The giant brick industrial block has been restored and spruced up in much …
Indian Jeweller Pops Up In Chennai Mall With Ambitious, Digital-Filled Experience Zone October 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes India’s largest jewellery retail brand is using a pop-up immersive experience in a shopping mall in Chennai to showcase a new collection of pieces inspired by an ancient Indian dynasty, with a custom room set up on a mall concourse and driven by display and interactive technologies. Tanishq, which is part of the Tata corporate …
Welsh Gourmet Grocer Driving Sales, Experience Using Tiled Digital Menus At Order Counters October 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes A good sign that digital signage is increasingly mainstreamed tech in grocery is when screens start lighting up in local and one-off groceries, and not just with the bigger, deeper-pocketed supermarket chains. This is the Cardiff Seaside Market – a gourmet grocer in Wales in guess what city – which has added a pair of …
UK Startup Cloudshelf Launches No Code Platform Bridging E-Commerce Sites To In-Store Kiosks October 18, 2022 by Dave Haynes A London-based start-up called Cloudshelf has formally launched a no-code, automated platform it says bridges online shopping to in-store by extending a version of retailer and brand e-commerce websites to touchscreens. The idea is that smaller retailers who don’t have the money or resources to build made-for-purpose in-store digital experience can instead use Cloudshelf, and …
London Flagship Of Luxury Retailer Uses High Street Facade As Vast Digital Art Canvas October 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is new to me but likely not to people who live or work in London – the flagship store of a UK luxury retailer using the exterior windows of its facade as a vast digital art installation. The Oxford Street location of Flannels, a British multi-brand retailer, has what’s described as a three-storey curtain …
Vast Vienna McDonald’s Flagship “Breaks The QSR Cliche” With LED Video Walls, Hotel Lobby Feel October 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes This McDonald’s in Vienna, Austria would have to qualify as one of the nicest ones out there – looking more like a lux hotel in the reception area than a fast food spot. Our German language content partners at Munich-based Invidis have an interesting post up today about a flagship store in downtown Vienna that …
UK Startup Offers Pop-Up Retail By The Day Or Even Hour; Stores Heavily Powered By Digital Signage September 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes A UK start-up has developed a really interesting business model for renting short-term spaces that relies very heavily on digital signage technology to video walls to deliver the experience. Sook leases spaces to brands who need a short-term pop-up space to sell goods or launch products, but rents that same space for things like art …
Fashion Icons Use LED Column As Centerpiece At Famed Paris Department Store September 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Just about every example of an LED based on a vertical column has been for DOOH advertising in places like airports and rail stations, but that form factor is used as a key feature in a specialty leasing set-up that pairs fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld with supermodel Cara Delevingne at a famed Paris department store. …
Spanish Apparel Retailer Lefties Opens Digital-Filled Store Of Future In Barcelona September 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes Details are hard to find, but this is the newly-opened “store of the future” from an apparel brand called Lefties – at a mall in Barcelona. Lefties os part of the giant Inditex retail group and I think it is positioned as an outlet store for fast fashion giant Zara. The store has one hell …
India Seeing Big Digital Signage Growth Because Of Messaging Compliance Needs: Scala MD September 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Surprisingly little news or PR gets to me about the digital signage business in India, given the size of that country and overall region, and the amount of growth happening. So this Linkedin post and embedded video (but not embedded enough to also embed here!) from the India business unit of Scala, and by extension …
