Chipotle Using Digital Signage To Speed Up Back Of House Order Prep June 10, 2021 by Super User These may be common and I just haven’t come across them, but I was intrigued watching a video interview with QSR chain Chipotle’s CTO, talking about making a big pivot to digital when COVID hit. Just about every restaurant had to adjust in a serious way, but it is a bigger challenge for companies that …
Brisbane Telecoms Retailer’s Corner Storefront Features Twin LED Arches June 8, 2021 by Super User This is a very interesting use of direct view LED on the facade of a high street telecoms store in Brisbane, Australia. The display is a curved arc over two windows on the street corner store for the Yes Optus Store on Queen Street in Brisbane. The project was done by the local to Brisbane …
The Digital Signage Industry Is In The Middle Of Radical Change. Here’s Why And How … June 7, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Stephen Gottlich, Gable The digital signage industry is in the midst of radical change. On one side, you have the typical AV integrators, who have focused on providing no more than the commoditized technology that enables both audio and video communication. On the other side of the spectrum, you have companies like JCDecaux …
Gable Launches Mall Kiosk With Twin Big Screens For Directory And Advertising June 4, 2021 by Super User The retail-centric solutions company Gable has deployed an interesting double display in an Ohio shopping mall that uses one screen for navigation and directory lookup, and a second for DOOH advertising. The company, based in the Baltimore area, says the display unit is the first of its kind, and I can’t say I’ve seen something …
Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Adds Queue Management Via Q-Better Partnership June 1, 2021 by Super User The metering of access into stores and appointment-based retailing that came up by necessity in the past 15 months will stick around, in some fashion, so digital signage solution providers will likely see more and more demand for queue management tools. Those can be built – which can be expensive and time-consuming, and probably hard. …
Smoothie King Franchisees Shifting From Analog Posters To Digital Menu Displays, In And Out May 25, 2021 by Super User Here’s a real-world example of why QSR restaurant franchise owners would make what can be substantial capital investments to convert from analog to digital menus at their stores. Operators of Smoothie King franchises in several U.S. states have been converting menu displays inside and outside to digital to speed turnarounds on changes and have a …
South African Retailer Kits Out Flagship With More Than 65 Smart Screens May 21, 2021 by Super User This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. It would be quite common, these days, to see that big wall clad side …
Burger King Using AI For Dynamic Recommendations On Ordering Touchscreens May 20, 2021 by Super User The tech blog VentureBeat has an interesting post up about how major QSR chains are following the lead of McDonald’s by applying artificial intelligence for driving sales and customer experience. It notes that Burger King worked with Intel and an AI company to come up with a recommendation engine for touchscreen ordering. “It can predict,” …
Seoul Starbucks Reserve Drives Experience With Ambient, Data-Triggered LED Feature Wall May 19, 2021 by Super User This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. Opened a couple of months ago, Starbucks says: The interior of the …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Super User I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …
