Coates Starts Marketing Sleek Self-Service Kiosks For QSR October 31, 2019 by Super User The Aussie-based, QSR-focused digital signage and retail solutions firm Coates Group has started marketing a self-service screen it says pushes the boundaries on kiosk design. Called the K2, presumably named after the lofty, hard-to-climb Himalayas peak, the touchscreen unit looks like a big, sleek tablet with a payment unit at its bottom. “The release of …
Does MIRROR’s Success Offer New Life To Digital Signage Mirror Displays? October 30, 2019 by Super User I think it is reasonable to suggest the whole magic mirror/LCD display embedded in mirror glass thing has been something less than a runaway success in digital signage. I see them in “stores of the future” and one-off whiz-bang installs, but don’t get any sense they’re widely installed by or for anyone. Perhaps the mainstreaming …
Puma Opens Screen-Filled Immersive Skill Cube In NYC Flagship Store October 30, 2019 by Super User A lot of athletic shoe flagship stores in NYC seem to build their signature customer experiences around hoops, which makes sense for many reasons, but Puma’s new flagship is focused instead on what the Brits call footy. The Skill Cube immerses visitors in a room fitted 270° floor to ceiling with narrow bezel LCD screens, supplemented …
Vitamin Shoppe’s New Innovation Store Includes Clever Product Look-Up Screen October 11, 2019 by Super User This is the newly-opened innovation store/store of the future for Vitamin Shoppe, which sells guess what. The store in Edgewater, NJ (pretty much across the Hudson from the Harlem district of NYC) has been updated with a new design and layout, but I mention this job because the store does a couple of things with …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Super User I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
Matt Schmitt On Why Retail-centric Reflect Got Into Advertising Software October 9, 2019 by Super User Reflect is one of the longest running companies in the digital signage sector – operating out of Dallas since 2001. The company built up its CMS software business largely in retail, but in early 2017 did something of a pivot into ad scheduling and targeting. I wondered, when I first got walked through what’s called …
Mood Media Gets Retail Music, Digital Signage Working Together With New Harmony CMS October 2, 2019 by Super User Austin, TV-based Mood Media has come up with an interesting cross-media solution aimed at making it easier to control a variety of “experiences” in retail settings off of a single platform. Called Harmony, the software and underlying technology platform lets retail operators “connect and manage all of their in-store content – including music, messaging, visuals …
Screens Above NZ Shoe Store Hacked To Run Porn Video September 30, 2019 by Super User If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that someone – presumably hackers – penetrated the media play-out device that drives content on the …
McKinsey Opening Test Lab Store In Mall Of America September 26, 2019 by Super User The huge management consultant firm McKinsey & Company is opening a retail test lab store tomorrow that’s designed to try out and analyze different technologies touted to transform shopping experiences. The store – called Modern Retail Collective – opens Friday at the vast Mall of America, in suburban Minneapolis. McKinsey says this differs from other …
Research: Menu Board Testing Shows Differences Images And Motion Make On Sales September 16, 2019 by Super User Atlanta-based High Street Collective has now released the results of a first round of testing at a local store that doubles as a “Living Retail Lab” for digital initiatives. The owner of Citizen Supply, located inside Atlanta’s Ponce City Market, built a bar and lounge inside his store in early 2019 and called it Likewise, …
