Wing Stop Rolls Out Smart Digital Menu Displays Across Growing UK Footprint February 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes It now seems odd to see a QSR chain that is NOT using digital menu boards and other displays in their stores and in drive-thrus, but a deployment of screens across the UK estate of a wings and fries chain is interesting on a couple of counts. Wingstop UK (managed by Lemon Pepper Holdings ltd) …
Dubai Outdoor Shopping Complex Upgrades 40 Display Network February 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s Dubai, where just about everything done is over the top and budget restraint is an abstract concept, but nonetheless this is an interesting look at how large format digital signage can dominate an outdoor retail development. The development is call The Beach and is in the lux Jumeirah Beach area of Dubai, along the …
Japanese 7-Elevens Testing Floating Virtual Screens For Touchless Transactions January 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes On the heels of word that a fast casual restaurant chain in Quebec is testing touchless self-service ordering kiosks comes news of 7-Eleven deploying test units of a touchless payment station in some of its Japanese stores. The program involves six different technology companies, with a division of Toshiba guiding the program. From a Japanese …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
LED Goes Mainstream: Now There Are LED Video Walls In Car Washes January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you needed more evidence for your argument that LED video wall technology has shifted from being a specialty product to a mainstream one, consider the Niagara Carwash chain in Germany, which is putting large-ish video walls inside those facilities. The German publisher and consultancy Invidis reports: The branches of Niagara Carwash are intended to …
Amazon Launching Bricks And Mortar Apparel Store, With Fitting Room Touchscreens As Hubs January 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Amazon is planning to open its first bricks and mortar store dedicated to apparel, and one of the key components of the in-store customer experience will be touchscreens. The first Amazon Style store will be in suburban LA and will open later this year – showing women’s and men’s apparel, shoes, and accessories from a …
Parisian Mall’s LED Set-up Offers Visual Domination For Marketers January 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’d put this in the oldie but goodie category of posts – an LED-lined shopping mall atrium in suburban Paris. I came across a domination campaign being done in Westfield’s Les 4 Temps mall and thought it was very impressive in terms of scale and managing to be visually unavoidable, without being crass about it. …
The Normally Big NRF Retail Show Is Happening In New York, And Appears To Doing OK January 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Much of the attention as we have shifted into the new year and trade show season was focused on CES in Las Vegas, but that event is mainly about consumer technology. The tech-centric National Retail Federation show in New York is very arguably more relevant to the digital signage ecosystem, and it opened its exhibit …
Israel’s Most Popular Playhouse Using Street-Level Window Screens To Drive Awareness, Ticket Sales January 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Putting screens in full-length windows that face the street can present a bunch of technical challenges – the biggest ones handling glare and heat build-up from the sun. But there’s also a big challenge in making the screen infrastructure tidy and like it all belongs there. This is the ground-level lobby of the new home …
