LED Is The Primary Architectural Design Feature In This Shanghai Coach Store December 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a new immersive retailing store in Shanghai, run by the handbag and accessories brand Coach. Details are limited, but what I found on Linkedin says this is Coach’s first immersive digital store, in Shanghai IAPM, which is an upscale mall. Coach’s VP for Visual Experience says on Linkedin that “customers can change the …
New Bahrain Mall Features 8K Experiential LED Canopy Ceiling December 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a roughly 30 foot wide by 200 foot long LED canopy ceiling, doing 8K visuals, in the Mall of Dilmunia in Bahrain. It is an element of a digital out-of-home network in the mall, designed and integrated by Four Square Media, and using Navori’s CMS software. The screen network went in with the …
Touchless Merchandising Display Nicely Blends Creative With Interactive Projection Tech December 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes The value of touchless retailing experience is the sort of thing that can be debated, but whether you think it is necessary or not in this health crisis, this is a very good example of how to get the creative and user experience right. This is an interactive retailing piece developed by the UK company …
BP Using LED Video Walls Inside Kiwi C-Stores, Surrounding Cooler Doors December 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been lots of examples of transparent and regular LCDs acting as cooler doors in grocery and other food and booze retail settings, but I think this is the first time I have seen using LED to surround cooler doors. It’s great. This is a special “Good Mood Food” section set up in select …
Mood Media Now Owned By Private Equity Firm December 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes Mood Media’s interesting year continues, with news today that the retail experience company has been acquired by a private equity company. The company, whose range of in-store media services includes digital signage and experiential media, went into Chapter 11 this summer and then bounced right out of it in I guess was some sort of …
Experiential Flagship Store For Cannabis Producer Makes Heavy Use of LED As Design Elements November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a cannabis store – albeit an experiential flagship store – in a monster shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta – with fine pitch LED being used as the menu display, promo display and a big ambient ceiling. The 11,000 sq. ft. Aurora Cannabis store in West Edmonton Mall – at one time the biggest …
Intuiface, Sightcorp Partner On Shopper Analytics And Real Time Interactive Content Bundle November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes French interactive software firm Intuiface and the Dutch computer vision firm Sightcorp have announced a partnership that integrates technologies and results in a bundled toolkit designed to simplify things like shopper analytics and real-time content triggering to screens. The partnership involves the integration of Amsterdam-based Sightcorp’s DeepSight Toolkit with Intuiface to enable, says PR, both …
Next AVIXA DS Power Hour Is Dec. 1 – The Parking Lot Is The New Store November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes The next AVIXA Digital Signage Power Hour is coming up quick, on Dec. 1, the date moved up to make way for the D=SIGN 2-day conference. This one is a roundtable format again, focused this time on how COVID-19 has changed the way retailing needs to be done. It’s called: The Parking Lot Is The …
Big LCD Video Wall Greets Customers At Entry To WaFd HQ Branch November 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the renovated public area of the head office of WaFd bank (Washington Federal) in downtown Seattle, with the big digital feature a three by three narrow bezel LCD video wall in the entry. The Connected Walls entry component, developed by Seattle consultancy NewReach and put in by AVI-SPL, runs community content, as well …
Lindt Interactive Piece Blends Interactive Display With Rube Goldberg Machine November 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes Not sure where this is – let’s just assume Switzerland. It is a combination of an interactive display for chocolate giant Lindt, likely at a flagship store or some sort of corporate venue, like the company’s new Home of Chocolate Muesum. Based on what’s evident in the video, users walk up, tap a reader and …