Sports Retailer Decathlon’s First US Store Features LED Video Wall December 3, 2018 by Super User Decathlon is the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, with more than 1,350 stores in 39 countries, but the French company only recently entered the US market. Decathlon Sports has moved into 8,313 square feet on the ground-floor space of 735 Market Street, a building designed by legendary architect Willis Polk and opened in 1908, in …
LED Feature Walls Give Renovated Space Center Shop Lift-Off December 3, 2018 by Super User This is what’s called the World’s Largest Space Shop, a renovated 15,372 sq. ft. retail space at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s east coast. The shop re-opened in June this year, upgraded among many things by big indoor and outdoor LED feature walls and interactive screens, all via RMG Networks. The solution uses …
The Disgusting Side Of Customer Engagement Technology: Bacteria-Riddled Touchscreens November 29, 2018 by Super User When interactive touchscreens first came on the market, and everyone started blabbering away about engagement technology and customer engagement, there were more than a few germaphobes who pointed out that, ummm, public touchscreens ran the risk of having disgusting surfaces. Think of anything that gets touched and touched and touched all day long, by people …
Halifax Bank’s Splashy London Flagship Branch Features LED Halo, Interactive Stations November 22, 2018 by Super User This is the London flagship branch for the UK-based Halifax Bank – located on Oxford Street across the road from the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. The new branch has a long list of digital signage and interactive applications, all pulled together by the Manchester-area solutions firm Pixel Inspiration., which has been working for years …
Nike Opens Screen-Filled, Frictionless Shopping Flagship In NYC November 19, 2018 by Super User Nike late last week opened the doors to what it calls “House of Innovation 000” – a new six-level flagship store at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York that is built around making shopping largely frictionless, and uses a lot of screens. The 68,000 square foot store includes a center-hung, multi-level not-sure-what-I’d-call-it multi-sensory tower structure …
BrightSign Partners With BlueFox On WiFi-Sensing Retail Analytics November 16, 2018 by Super User BrightSign is the latest digital signage-focused company to build analytics into its offer, though it is via partnership and done a little differently than some other companies in the ecosystem. The Silicon Valley-based Roku spinoff BrightSign has integrated BlueFox’s WiFi sniffing technology into its range of digital signage media players. The pitch for what’s touted as …
Beth Warren Of CRI On How To Make Digital Signage Really Resonate In Retail November 14, 2018 by Super User Beth Warren of Creative Realities – or CRI for short – came recommended as a speaker for the DSF’s recent Coffee and Controversy event in New York. We’d never met, and while in New York, I seized the opportunity to meet up with her after the event to talk a lot about digital signage in …
Sony’s Crystal LED Wall Spotted In Real World Retail Install November 9, 2018 by Super User A reader, doubling as a volunteer operative, sent me pix from Toronto’s ritzy Yorkdale mall of an actual, real installation of that giant, gorgeous Sony “crystal LED” screen that’s shown up at trade shows for the last couple of years. The CLEDIS display – new tech that is micro/mini/something LED versus the normal surface-mounted LEDs …
Epson Marketing Spotlight-Style Projectors For Retail Settings November 7, 2018 by Super User Stumbled across this interesting new product being marketed by Epson – a laser projector that’s set up like a ceiling spotlight, but intended to show full visuals, as opposed to simply illuminating an area. Called LightScene, the $2,500 MSRP projectors look a bit like spotlights, but have 2,000-lumen, 20,000-hour projector engines that can push just …
YCD Latest Digital Signage Company To Add In-House Shopper Analytics November 2, 2018 by Super User Retail analytics seems to now be a thing in digital signage, many years after companies like Cognovision (Intel bought) and VideoMining popped up and tried to make the case for software partners doing integration for their screens. Many things have, of course, changed in the ensuing years – notably cloud computing, cheaper and faster hardware, …
