Airport Retailer Starts Wrapping Multi-Brand Vending Machine Banks With DV LED Ribbons April 1, 2021 by Super User If you cast your mind back a year and plus, you may have vague memories of these places called airports, and venues and things in them where you bought stuff, like Gravol or $6 bottles of water. A company that somewhat specializes in airport retailing – Hudson – has started to fit out non-staffed locations …
Swiss Pharma Retailer Using Computer Vision To Shape In-Store Screen Messaging March 24, 2021 by Super User Here’s an operating example of a computer vision-based analytics platform being tied to digital displays and specifically used to drive sales of endemic products in a store. In this case, it is roughly 120 pharmacies in Switzerland under the TopPharm banner. The retailer is using the computer vision firm Advertima to shape content on two screens per store, …
Does Retail Really Need Roaming Robots With Screens That Try To Sell More Candy Bars? March 22, 2021 by Super User Robotics can be absolutely amazing in terms of applications – just consider the Mars rover and the companion helicopter expected to soon start test flights on the Red Planet. Back here on Earth, there are countless great applications for robotics, but then there other ones – some cooked up by marketing and merchandising people – …
C-Store Chain Kwik Trip Finishes 1,000+ Screen Rollout Across US Midwest March 19, 2021 by Super User The commercial display company PPDS, aka Philips, has announced the completion of a smart digital signage rollout to some 700 Kwik Trip convenience stores across the U.S. midwest. The c-store chain started a modernization program in 2018 and now has more than 1,000 screens in place – all of them Philips D-Line displays with embedded …
Silicon Valley Eyewear Store Uses Dozing Old Lady Robot, Donkeys, For Experience March 3, 2021 by Super User From the skewed perspective of people working in the digital signage and pro AV sectors, the delivery of in-store experience is all about the screens. But it is useful to get reminders now and then that a lot of store design these days has little or nothing to do with connected displays. Like this new …
Wraparound DV LED Ribbon Tops New Frictionless Hudson Shop At Love Field In Dallas March 1, 2021 by Super User Here’s more evidence that DV LED is mainstreaming – an LED header ribbon display on a grab’n’go newsstand at Dallas Love Field Airport. Located post-security near Gate 10, the Hudson Nonstop stand opened up on Feb. 22, offering contactless shopping that uses Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology (the kind used at Amazon Go stores). “The …
Samsung Launches First All-In-One Self-Service Kiosk March 1, 2021 by Super User Samsung has broadened its reach in QSR and retail by introducing its own 24-inch interactive ordering screen – starting in South Korea but intending to bring it to other markets. Samsung Kiosk – thumbs up for the to-the-point name – is an all-in-one LCD with a touch layer, using an SoC as the player and …
Three Paris Shops Sync’d Up With DV LED Screens In Windows, Entries February 27, 2021 by Super User The great majority of the projects I come across in retail involve a single flagship store, so it was interesting to come across a group of coordinated DV LED window and entry screen projects involving a French retailer in Paris. Digital AV has a post up about three locations of Fnac Paris using large-format digital …
March 3 Webinar Explores Monetizing Massive 24K Screen Network In Sam’s Club Stores February 25, 2021 by Super User There’s an interesting webinar coming up next week that looks at a massive rollout of digital signage displays in the big box warehouse retailer Sam’s Club. Sam’s, for people overseas, is like Costco, and owned by Walmart. If Costco also confuses you, I suggest Google. There are 24,000 screens across the Sam’s Club In-Club Digital …
The Gas Station Of The Future, Dubai Version, Is Very Predictably Over The Top February 25, 2021 by Super User This is touted as the gas station of the future, though it might more accurately be described as the gas station of the present in a region where wild spending and over-the-top designs have long ago been normalized. It is, of course, in Dubai. The service station is operated by the ENOC Group, the “Official …
