Expanded UNIQLO Store Takes Big Steps With LED May 22, 2019 by Super User The expanded UNIQLO store at Toronto Eaton Centre – a huge indoor mall in the city’s central business district – has a staircase that’s now lined with LED risers. The stairs were custom-made by Ottawa’s UTG Digital Media for the expansion. They are 27 feet wide and have 13 shock-absorbent steps, all of which can display …
Fab Stanghieri On Why Canada’s Biggest Cinema Company Is In Digital Signage May 22, 2019 by Super User Canadians all know Cineplex as the dominant movie theater chain in that country, and the Toronto-based company has also been expanding its reach, in recent years, into other related lines of business. Cineplex now has entertainment-centric restaurant-bars, is bringing Top Golf into Canada, sells out of home media and runs a thriving digital media group …
New Liverpool Seven Store Makes Digital Signage A Focal Point May 21, 2019 by Super User Some nice uses of narrow bezel Philips LCD displays in this new Seven apparel store in Liverpool, put in by the UK solutions provider Skratch. Not really sure about the big green wall with the shoe display shelves. Don’t see bezels, so I am either missing that in the pic, it’s LED ($$$!!!), or a …
Ferrari Dealer Switches Out Paper Showroom Fact Sheets For E-Paper Tags May 21, 2019 by Super User The guys at Freshwater Digital have built up knowledge and experience working with e-paper signs – or what they call digital tags – and introduced them into interesting use cases. I know the Grand Rapids, MI solution provider has a research client using them at stations to automatically update findings and status. Now, in a …
Walmart Opens AI-Driven Intelligent Retail Lab Outside NYC May 6, 2019 by Super User Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining …
Canada’s Mountain Equipment Coop Outsources In-Store Digital Signage To Cineplex April 30, 2019 by Super User Immediately on the heels of my rant about a sporting goods retailer doing digital signage badly comes word of another Canadian retailer – also kinda sorta in the same category – expanding and revising its in-store digital signage. Mountain Equipment Coop, or MEC, is very much like REI in the United States – with goods …
The Store With The Most Screens Doesn’t Necessarily Win April 30, 2019 by Super User Canadian sporting goods and apparel retailer SportChek has large footprint shopping mall and standalone stores across the country and has, for many years now, been an early and enthusiastic adopter of digital signage technology. On one hand, it has been great to see a retailer making a big investment in screens and related hardware and …
Blended Reality Nail Polish Kiosks Drive 24% Sales Bumps April 17, 2019 by Super User The global beauty company COTY is using free-standing blended reality kiosks to help demo and sell a line of nail polish products, and has seen 24% sales bumps at locations where they are plugged in. There are more than 400 units – marketing nail polish from the COTY brand OPI – in third-party stores around …
LED Mesh Screens Have Come A Long Way, But … April 11, 2019 by Super User There were numerous overseas vendors at ISE – and I expect to see more at Infocomm in a couple of months – showing mesh-screen LED displays. They have come a long way in a relatively short time, and when running, the pixel pitch of these things can be good enough to deliver crisp, rich and …
Levi’s Time Square Flagship Uses 1,000+ Sq. Ft. Of LED To Drive In-Store Experience March 20, 2019 by Super User The new-ish Levi’s flagship store in Times Square in New York City (lotsa posts lately about NYC and Times Square!) is, at nearly 17,000 square feet, the apparel company’s largest flagship. It’s a multi-level shop, opened last fall, that goes big on AV – notably fine pitch D3 LED displays, run by Reflect CMS software and …
