The First Neiman-Marcus In NYC Has Plenty Of Interactive Retail Tech March 14, 2019 by Super User Via Retail Info Systems New York City may be a retail mecca, but it has never had a Neiman-Marcus store. That changes tomorrow as the Dallas-based luxury department store opens a whiz-bang three-level branch in Hudson Yards, the massive, high-end development west of Times Square and across the street from the Javits Center. The 188,000-square-foot, …
Shoptalk Day 2 Impressions – New Retail Is All About Personalization March 7, 2019 by Super User If there was a broad theme I could pick up from two days of listening to various retail operators and investors, and wandering the exhibit hall of Shoptalk, it was personalization. Just about anyone I heard spoke about a need for retailers to create a shopping experience that was more relevant and personal to each …
My Day One Impressions From The Shoptalk Retail Show In Las Vegas March 5, 2019 by Super User I am in Las Vegas attending Shoptalk, a retail tech conference that has some 8,400 attendees and a way bigger trade show hall than I expected. The conference side of Shoptalk is what compelled me to get on a long flight here, just three weeks before I need to be back for Digital Signage Expo. …
Full Color Advanced E Ink Digital Sign Testing In Japan February 22, 2019 by Super User Via Good e-Reader … E Ink keeps pushing the envelope on full-color signs – and a new version developed for the Japanese market is touted as low-power digital signage for retail. Good e-Reader has a post up about a pair of Japanese companies showing and testing what’s called an ACeP – or working Advanced Color E-Paper – …
Philly Book Shop Uses Split-Flap Display To Promote Instant-Print Machine February 21, 2019 by Super User This is a nice use of those old-school split-flap disc displays to promote a rapid book-printing service at an indie book shop in Philadelphia. At Shakespeare & Co.’s new location in Philadelphia’s Center City, the on-demand Espresso Book Machine printer – which can print any paperback on-demand in the time it takes to make a …
Alberto Cáceres On Growing Trison Into Europe’s Largest Digital Signage Solutions Provider February 20, 2019 by Super User Being in Amsterdam for ISE recently offered a chance to meet up and talk to some people who are squarely focused on business on the other side of the Atlantic. I knew Trison was a major player in digital signage solutions in its home country of Spain, but I didn’t realize the company had a …
London Flagship Cinema Adds Blended Mirror-Screen Heritage Wall February 19, 2019 by Super User This is a blended mirror wall – video wall in the heart of the recently renovated Odeon cinema, just off London’s busy Leicester Square. The UK solutions provider Beaver Group provided all the hardware, software, installation, content creation and support for the flagship cinema. As well as integration and display of live film times, trailers …
Giant LED Banner Starts Revolving In Famed Kuala Lumpur Mall January 25, 2019 by Super User This is what’s touted to be the world’s largest double-sided LED display, a revolving ad banner in a six-storey shopping mall at the base of the famous Petronas twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The banner is a 4.7mm pixel pitch, 19-foot wide by 33.5-foot high NanoLumens screen that rotates 359 degrees (I’m guessing it rotates …
Tire Merchandising Goes Digital At Canadian Nissan Dealers January 24, 2019 by Super User This is a simple but effective, I think, mash-up of merchandising and digital signage used to promote tire options at Nissan and Infiniti dealers in Canada. Groupe Touchette, the largest Canadian-owned distributor of automobile tires, worked with Montreal solutions shop iGotcha Media on digital signage display stands for nine dealerships, across several provinces. Says a …
16:9 Podcast – From ESLs to Avatars At NRF 2019 January 23, 2019 by Super User This is a special edition of the podcast, which I am pretty much whacking together myself, in the wake of running around the NRF show last week in New York. I had my handy little Tascam recorder with me, so I grabbed some quick interviews with several companies I bumped into, with the idea of …
