LED Lines Walls, Ceiling Of This Hyundai Showroom In Seoul Mega-Mall November 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a Hyundai showroom in the newly opened Starfield Hanam shopping mall in suburban Seoul – one of those new-style car dealerships that skips most of the normal dealer stuff, like scores of cars, and uses a lot of digital to market the brand. The third in a series of Hyundai Motor Studios, this …
Definitely Not Your Average, Grubby ATM Lobby November 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen in my travels a few cases of banks dressing up their cash machine lobbies to make them a bit more inviting, but this flagship bank in Spain is next-level nice. These are images from the new “All in One” flagship CaixaBank branches put in at a pair of iconic buildings located in Barcelona …
SE China Mall Uses Huge LED “Waterfall” And Arena-Style LED Ribbon Displays For Shopper Experience November 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a shopping mall in Guangzhou, with a huge 2.5mm pixel pitch LED waterfall in the central atrium and LED ribbon displays that are reminiscent of pro sports venues. The content runs on the main screen and four levels of ribbons, and syncs. One of the most interesting aspects, to me, is the stage …
UK Krispy Kreme Adopts Digital Displays To Drive In-Store, Grocery Sales November 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Krispy Kreme made a big splash recently with its digitally-rich flagship store in Times Square in New York, so it is interesting to see what the donut chain is doing with digital displays in the UK, in more modest locations, with much more modest budgets. Krispy Kreme UK currently operates over 115 locations and has …
Norwegian Toy Store Drives Experience With 24M LED Ceiling November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive, nicely executed LED ceiling installed above the Kozmos toy store at Sandvika Storsenter, a mall in the general orbit of Oslo, Norway. The ceiling is 24 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and runs through a set of visuals designed to make little eyes pop and drive the overall customer …
6,000 Thermal Sensor Kiosks Running In, Psssst, Home Depots October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A smirking Hat Tip to Middletown, CT-based Reality Interactive for issuing a second press release about the same thing, and showing how tech companies are constrained by their clients in what they can say about big projects. The company put out PR recently indicating its contactless body temperature check screen-thingie was seeing marketplace adoption. First …
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Takes Shopping Mall Operator To Task Over Video Analytics, And It’s Just Stupid October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A bit of a shitstorm has spun up here in Canada over “news” Thursday that a major shopping center chain had been using computer vision in its malls to get a handle on shopper demographics, somehow threatening privacy in the process. A report from Canada’s privacy commissioner says Cadillac Fairview – which owns and runs …
Florida Sushi Chain Says Self-Order Kiosks Have Kept Them In Business Through Pandemic October 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes The conventional thinking – me included – at the start of the pandemic was that the future looked particularly dark for companies that focused on interactive touchscreen technology, but the opposite has happened – and here’s a tangible example of why. A small Florida chain of restaurants that specializes in sushi and operated on the …
STRATACACHE Closes Massive QSR Drive-Thru Deal With RBI October 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Dayton, Ohio-based digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE has bagged and closed a massive deal that sees it providing software, hardware and services to three of the larger QSR chains in North America, The deal involves more than 40,000 screens at Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes locations in Canada and the U.S. The focus is …
Re-Opened American Dream Filled With Direct View LED Displays October 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a glimpse inside American Dream, the destination retail/entertainment attraction that opened up, closed for COVID and then re-opened at the start of the month. The huge mall (the backers don’t like that term, but …) is located in the New Jersey meadowlands, on the other side of the Hudson from New York City. …
