Company Adds Screens To Anti-Theft Totems Common At Retail Gateways June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes A Vancouver, BC-area company is marketing a display totem product for retail that, interesting, doubles up as a loss prevention tool. Just about any consumer will be familiar with vertical totems that shoppers need to walk though as they exit a store, with embedded electronics in the devices doing what’s called Electronic Article Surveillance loss …
Fashion Brand Uses Immersive Creative, Floor-To-Ceiling LED Columns, For Barcelona Flagship June 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Barcelona creative technology shop Instronic does very nice work – the latest example a flagship store in the historic city center for the Portuguese fashion label Parfois. The shop has support columns fully clad in LED displays, and what looks like great experiential content amplified by reflective ceilings. The store design was done by …
London Ikea Uses Fun Projection Mapping To Animate Workspace Section June 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping is not all that common in retail, probably owing to a few factors like lighting conditions, but when the set-up is right, it can be fun and effective – like this Ikea in London, UK. This is an Ikea in the Wembley district that has been fitted in the workspaces area with some playful …
Europe’s Largest LED Ceiling To Light Up Manchester’s Iconic Printworks Venue June 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes An old newspaper building block in Manchester, UK that was re-imagined as a multi-tenant entertainment venue is getting an upgrade with what will be the largest LED ceiling in Europe. The entire common space ceiling inside of Printworks will be 900 sq. meters of ceiling-suspended LED – a lightweight, fire-rated set of modules/cabinets provided by …
Smart Retail 2.0: Screens Are Key To Post-COVID Retailing June 13, 2022 by HenrikAndersson GUEST POST: HENRIK ANDERSSON, INSTORESCREEN Online shopping and mobile technologies were already compelling a lot of bricks and mortar retailers to start digitally transforming the way their stores looked, worked and were experienced by customers – but the many impacts of the global pandemic put those plans in much faster motion. Services like curbside pickup …
Transparent OLEDs Tiled To Create Dynamic Window In Korean Retail Bakery June 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has been floating a variety of possible use-cases for its transparent OLED displays – with dynamic messaging on things like subway car windows and sliding glass entry doors to stores. Now it is touting how a retail bakery in South Korea has tiled a set of the see-through displays to create a window looking …
Bluefin Adds Windows 10 All-In-One Screens Via New Seneca Partnership June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The all-in-one display company Bluefin has added Windows 10 IoT to its options for its smaller-format, retail-centric range of merchandising and marketing displays, through a new partnership with the custom PC firm Seneca. The units range in size from 13-32 inches, use an Intel Celeron processor and have touchscreen overlays. Bluefin got into digital signage …
So The Section In The Manual About Micro-Adjustments … Maybe Read It? May 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes Most of the failed digital signage efforts I come across, or have sent my way, involve computing hardware or programming software that goes bad. But here’s a case of a video wall project in which the player, software and creative are all fine, but the installation or service job was a disaster. Christopher Gillespie of …
Dressing Room Interactive Screens Key Aspect of First Amazon Style Bricks & Mortar Store May 30, 2022 by Dave Haynes Online shopping giant Amazon has now opened its first physical fashion retail store, and a key feature is personalized interactive screens in fitting rooms, tied in with a store-centric app. The Amazon Style store opened its doors May 25th at a big LA-area shopping mall called The Americana at Brand. While Amazon also operates cashier-less …
Digital Signage For The Banking Sector? Of Course! May 24, 2022 by German Talon Guest Post: Germán Talón, Nsign.tv The pandemic has brought about big changes in many sectors, and banking is no exception. But before the pandemic, we were already seeing lots of high-level changes in the sector like, for instance, in major acquisitions and mergers. Many of these operations resulted in closures of offices and in the …