Gable Launches Mall Kiosk With Twin Big Screens For Directory And Advertising June 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes The retail-centric solutions company Gable has deployed an interesting double display in an Ohio shopping mall that uses one screen for navigation and directory lookup, and a second for DOOH advertising. The company, based in the Baltimore area, says the display unit is the first of its kind, and I can’t say I’ve seen something …
Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Adds Queue Management Via Q-Better Partnership June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes The metering of access into stores and appointment-based retailing that came up by necessity in the past 15 months will stick around, in some fashion, so digital signage solution providers will likely see more and more demand for queue management tools. Those can be built – which can be expensive and time-consuming, and probably hard. …
Smoothie King Franchisees Shifting From Analog Posters To Digital Menu Displays, In And Out May 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a real-world example of why QSR restaurant franchise owners would make what can be substantial capital investments to convert from analog to digital menus at their stores. Operators of Smoothie King franchises in several U.S. states have been converting menu displays inside and outside to digital to speed turnarounds on changes and have a …
South African Retailer Kits Out Flagship With More Than 65 Smart Screens May 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. It would be quite common, these days, to see that big wall clad side …
Burger King Using AI For Dynamic Recommendations On Ordering Touchscreens May 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes The tech blog VentureBeat has an interesting post up about how major QSR chains are following the lead of McDonald’s by applying artificial intelligence for driving sales and customer experience. It notes that Burger King worked with Intel and an AI company to come up with a recommendation engine for touchscreen ordering. “It can predict,” …
Seoul Starbucks Reserve Drives Experience With Ambient, Data-Triggered LED Feature Wall May 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. Opened a couple of months ago, Starbucks says: The interior of the …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …
Hamburg Pop-Up Bike Store Uses LCD Video Wall To Drive Specialized Brand May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes LED gets all the attention for video walls these days, but there are still retail projects going in that take advantage of the lower cost and resolution of narrow bezel LCD displays. This is a pop-up store in Hamburg, Germany, run by Concept Cycles but built for the premium partner brand Specialized. The 300 sq. …
Coca-Cola Using LED Ribbon Strips To Drive In-Store Marketing In Moscow Grocery May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an in-aisle merchandising set-up used by Coca-Cola in a supermarket chain in Russia. It is installed in Perekrestok (Crossroad, in English), in a mall in Moscow’s central business district. I don’t know whose LED ribbons are being used, but the CMS and play-out engine is the Swiss firm SpinetiX. A couple of things: I …
Finally, An Ikea Store You Can’t Get Lost In May 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you stay away from Ikea because you’re sick of getting lost in the labyrinth design, you’ll like this new Ikea in the Causeway Bay area of Hong Kong. The store is a pop-up that is testing an ultra-small format until the end of October. You can’t buy flat-pack furniture or shelving units, but you …
