Latest Gentle Monster Eyewear Store Blends Particle Accelerator, Giant Shrimp Thingies And Video Walls April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes You may recall a recent post about a South Korean eyewear chain that goes seriously over-the-top with its retail design concepts – with the one in Silicon Valley including an animatronic old lady who nods off and a pair of life-sized, stuffed donkeys. Here’s another Gentle Monster store – in a buzzy Beijing shopping district …
Ladorian, inReality Partner On Data-Driven Personalized Messaging For In-Store Screens April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes That feeling you sometimes get online – with served ads that seem to know your recent, personalized shopping interests – is now finding its way into physical stores through tie-ups like a new one between a pair of digital signage-focused tech firms. Madrid-based Ladorian, which has a software solution specializing in personalized data-driven messaging in …
Rangers Ballpark Concessions Cut Over To Self-Service Ordering April 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes Stadium Tech Report has a post up on its excellent site about how food concessions are being handled at the home stadium of baseball’s Texas Rangers, which is a little terrifyingly open to full capacity despite the ongoing pandemic. The stadium – Globe Life Field – is using a pile of interactive self-service ordering screens, …
Finally, An LED Light Wand Install That Makes Sense! April 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes My lack of enthusiasm for those madly spinning LED light wands has been noted numerous times in posts here, but I just stumbled on a use-case for the things that I actually think works well. It is for marketing Dyson’s SUPER-expensive air purifiers, and uses two of those light wands to create the effect of …
Digital-Filled American Dream Mega-Mall Struggling To Operate In Covid-19 Era April 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes The American Dream mega mall in New Jersey, just outside of New York City, has been positioned as a glimpse at the future of shopping centers. But the mall’s owners, whacked hard by pandemic restrictions, is struggling just to stay open. The mall’s Canadian owners have had to arrange a special deal with the banks …
Uniqlo Uses LED Cubes As Animated Brand Identifiers On Store Facade April 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes Large-scale and big budget direct view LED projects tend to get most of the trade press and overall industry attention, but sometimes there are modest projects that are worth calling out – like this one for the Japanese apparel chain Uniqlo. I’m not sure where this is, but Uniqlo has a simple set of 2.5mm …
Huge 1,200 Sq. Meter LED Canopy Looms Over Chinese Shopping Mall April 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a 1,200 sq. meter LED canopy ceiling looming over the common area of Joy City, a large shopping mall in Xi’an, in central China. The 5mm pixel pitch LianTronics display is touted as doing glasses-free 3D visuals that serve as something of an attraction for the shopping center. I think this has more …
Airport Retailer Starts Wrapping Multi-Brand Vending Machine Banks With DV LED Ribbons April 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 – …
