Beauty Brand’s Uses Planetary Inspiration For Digital Around Terrific Madrid Flagship May 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Barcelona creative technology shop Instronic does super-nice work, and one of the things I particularly like about the company is the amount of detail it puts into explaining the creative thinking and outputs for its higher profile projects. The company has a deeply detailed, very visual page up online explaining what was done, how …
Austrian Sports Retailer’s Mountain-Themed Flagship Greets Shoppers With Big LCD Video Wall May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes A periodic reminder, if it is needed, that LCDs are still valid options for video walls when done well in terms of positioning and content choices. This is the flagship store of Sport Bründl retail chain in Kaprun, Austria, a small, stunning resort town surrounded by by the Austrian Alps. The building hints at the …
Grocery TV Gets $30M In New VC Funding; Will Soon Be In 3,000 Stores In US May 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes The screens in the checkout lane retail media model mostly escapes me, because consumers are pretty much done shopping at that point, but an Austin, Texas-based firm has nonetheless secured $30M in new investment funding to continue building out its retail digital signage network, called Grocery TV. The new money is on top of $5 …
PR-Shackled CRI Makes Some Cryptic Noise About A Renewal Deal With Whale Retail Client April 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes Winning business with whale clients is always good news for service providers in digital signage, or just about any industry, but it is only rarely news that can get shared around for marketing benefit. That explains the somewhat cryptic news from solutions provider Creative Realities that it has re-upped its business for another three years …
82 LED Displays Sync’d For One Night Swarovski Branding Event At Saudi Retail Complex April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Wow. Just wow. This is a screen takeover done for the crystal glass brand Swarovski – a VERY ambitious one-night branding event at a retail complex. It is sync’d content across 82 screens of varying shapes and scales. The on-screen content was developed and delivered by the Belgian creative technology shop Bureau Beatrice, which recently …
Verizon Rolls Out 100s Of Touchscreen-Driven Pickup Lockers For Outside Its Stores April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting look at why and how the US telecoms giant Verizon developed a largely frictionless pickup locker system for retail locations, first testing it out last year at a location in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s two posts from Nebraska today! Writes Grady Milhon, who runs digital at retail for Verizon, on Linkedin … During …
LG Adds Three Tanning Booth-Bright In-Window LCDs To US Commercial Display Line-Up April 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has added three tanning booth-bright flat panel displays to its line-up, with the use-cases focused on applications like in-window displays for QSR operations and street-level retail. The units – 49, 55 and 75 inches – are rated at 4,000 nit brightness, which is as bright or brighter than many purely outdoor-rated LCD displays that …
LG Follows Samsung Into All-In-One Kiosk Market With 27-Inch, Windows-Driven Unit April 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes Sixteen:Nine content partner Invidis has a German language post up about how LG has followed the lead of Korean rival Samsung by developing and launching an all-in-one kiosk aimed at self-service applications. The LG Kiosk, reports Invidis, will be launched first in the Korean home market and later in Europe and North America, likely by …
Clever Retail: Subtle Shelf Robot Lifts Displayed Product When Shoppers Approach April 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip John Wheating … One of the ideas of using display technology right at merchandising shelves and tables is that the visuals will get the attention of shoppers. So what if those kinds of displays were paired with little robotic devices that actually lifted or shifted displayed products? That’s the premise behind a company …
Largest Ikea On Planet Needs Dozens Of Displays Just For Cafeteria April 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes I get tired and bewildered just thinking about a 700,000 sq. ft., five-level Ikea. As you might imagine, a store that big needs a lot of screens to do some of the basic work, like sell plates of Swedish meatballs. The first IKEA in The Philippines, along the reclaimed Manila waterfront, opened in November as …
