Seoul Urban Shopping Mall Uses Digital Displays To Attract Attention, Draw In Shoppers May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a seriously spruced-up entryway to an urban shopping plaza in Seoul, blending LED and LCD with ambient visuals. The M Plaza shopping mall refurbishment was led by the Spanish creative shop Necsum Trison – with a goal of making the entrance to the shopping center more striking for people on the high street. …
Shoppers Pass Through 20-Meter LED Tunnel To Get Into Flashy New Sydney Food Hall May 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes Photo: Kimberley Low In another sign that direct view LED is mainstreaming as a display option, here is a digital tunnel for a travelator – one of those flat escalator thingies that allows carts and roller bags – that leads up from a parkade into a high-end supermarket that’s opened up in Sydney, Australia. The independent …
VSBLTY, Onyx Glass Partner On Idea Of Cooler As A Service For Digital Chiller Door Screens May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The screens as grocery and c-store chiller doors thing has been around perhaps as long as a decade, and while marketplace adoption seems pretty limited to date, there are still companies getting into the concept and adding their own ideas on a special sauce, like AI. The latest is a tie-up between the Philly computer …
Starbucks Takes Digital End-Cap Concept Into The Aisles At ASDA Supermarket In UK May 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes My Linkedin feed had a post up from the UK about a digital merchandising display for Starbucks in the aisles of an ASDA supermarket. The display is like a digital end-cap, except it was in-aisle and uses tactics like fins and angled displays to try to grab shopper attention. I note this for a few …
Splashy New Westfield Mall Of Netherlands Using Big Digital Displays Inside And Out May 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Westfield Mall of The Netherlands opened a few weeks ago – Holland’s biggest retail destination with over 280 stores in the vicinity of The Hague. The development cost more than half a billion Euros, but even in a period when retail has been clobbered, the mall is more than 90% leased. Like just about …
Is This The World’s Biggest Digital Menu Display? May 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is certainly the biggest digital menu display I’ve ever seen – a set-up using LED in the common area of a cinema operation in the Cinépolis movie theater chain. Cinépolis is the largest cinema circuit in Latin America and the third worldwide, operating across Mexico, Brazil, part of the U.S. and roughly a dozen …
Dubai Mall Lines Concourses With Big DV LED Back-To-Backs May 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes A lot of the digital signage jobs I have seen lately in shopping malls has tended to be very large direct view LED displays that dominate a space, or LED ribbons that line floors levels in atrium areas a bit like the way LED ribbons line the seating bowls in arenas. So it was interesting …
Next Store In UK Fills Checkout Zone With DV LED Wall April 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a Next fashion apparel and furnishings store in Leicester, UK (go Foxes!) that uses a sweeping direct view LED s the backdrop to its checkout counter. I like this because of the scale of the screen. LCDs and OLEDs are gorgeous, but they are either going to be screens hanging on a wall …
Lots Of Kiosk Screens, No Digital Menu Displays, In New All-Digital Times Square Taco Bell April 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Taco Bell opened its first digital-only restaurant in the U.S. yesterday, a New York’s Times Square “Cantina” store that has no order counter or menu boards. The only way to order is ahead of time online or by mobile, or in-store using one of 10 self-order kiosks. Order-ahead customers can use a separate entrance and …
LED Becomes The Walls In Nike’s Dubai Mall Store April 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a great example of the whole notion of how direct view LED can be something added to a store design, or in cases like this, how it can be the primary architectural design element. It is a Nike store in the huge Dubai Mall, and is a set of LEDs put in by …
