Next Store In UK Fills Checkout Zone With DV LED Wall April 15, 2021 by Super User This is a Next fashion apparel and furnishings store in Leicester, UK (go Foxes!) that uses a sweeping direct view LED s the backdrop to its checkout counter. I like this because of the scale of the screen. LCDs and OLEDs are gorgeous, but they are either going to be screens hanging on a wall …
Lots Of Kiosk Screens, No Digital Menu Displays, In New All-Digital Times Square Taco Bell April 15, 2021 by Super User Taco Bell opened its first digital-only restaurant in the U.S. yesterday, a New York’s Times Square “Cantina” store that has no order counter or menu boards. The only way to order is ahead of time online or by mobile, or in-store using one of 10 self-order kiosks. Order-ahead customers can use a separate entrance and …
LED Becomes The Walls In Nike’s Dubai Mall Store April 12, 2021 by Super User This is a great example of the whole notion of how direct view LED can be something added to a store design, or in cases like this, how it can be the primary architectural design element. It is a Nike store in the huge Dubai Mall, and is a set of LEDs put in by …
Latest Gentle Monster Eyewear Store Blends Particle Accelerator, Giant Shrimp Thingies And Video Walls April 8, 2021 by Super User You may recall a recent post about a South Korean eyewear chain that goes seriously over-the-top with its retail design concepts – with the one in Silicon Valley including an animatronic old lady who nods off and a pair of life-sized, stuffed donkeys. Here’s another Gentle Monster store – in a buzzy Beijing shopping district …
Ladorian, inReality Partner On Data-Driven Personalized Messaging For In-Store Screens April 8, 2021 by Super User That feeling you sometimes get online – with served ads that seem to know your recent, personalized shopping interests – is now finding its way into physical stores through tie-ups like a new one between a pair of digital signage-focused tech firms. Madrid-based Ladorian, which has a software solution specializing in personalized data-driven messaging in …
Rangers Ballpark Concessions Cut Over To Self-Service Ordering April 7, 2021 by Super User Stadium Tech Report has a post up on its excellent site about how food concessions are being handled at the home stadium of baseball’s Texas Rangers, which is a little terrifyingly open to full capacity despite the ongoing pandemic. The stadium – Globe Life Field – is using a pile of interactive self-service ordering screens, …
Finally, An LED Light Wand Install That Makes Sense! April 6, 2021 by Super User My lack of enthusiasm for those madly spinning LED light wands has been noted numerous times in posts here, but I just stumbled on a use-case for the things that I actually think works well. It is for marketing Dyson’s SUPER-expensive air purifiers, and uses two of those light wands to create the effect of …
Digital-Filled American Dream Mega-Mall Struggling To Operate In Covid-19 Era April 6, 2021 by Super User The American Dream mega mall in New Jersey, just outside of New York City, has been positioned as a glimpse at the future of shopping centers. But the mall’s owners, whacked hard by pandemic restrictions, is struggling just to stay open. The mall’s Canadian owners have had to arrange a special deal with the banks …
Uniqlo Uses LED Cubes As Animated Brand Identifiers On Store Facade April 5, 2021 by Super User Large-scale and big budget direct view LED projects tend to get most of the trade press and overall industry attention, but sometimes there are modest projects that are worth calling out – like this one for the Japanese apparel chain Uniqlo. I’m not sure where this is, but Uniqlo has a simple set of 2.5mm …
Huge 1,200 Sq. Meter LED Canopy Looms Over Chinese Shopping Mall April 1, 2021 by Super User This is a 1,200 sq. meter LED canopy ceiling looming over the common area of Joy City, a large shopping mall in Xi’an, in central China. The 5mm pixel pitch LianTronics display is touted as doing glasses-free 3D visuals that serve as something of an attraction for the shopping center. I think this has more …
