Video: The Rationale And Benefits Of Digital Signage In Cannabis Retailing March 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes Few retail verticals need digital signage the way cannabis retailing needs it. You have a wide range of products emerging from a black market into licensed main street, mainstream retailing and a whole bunch of new customers whose collective understanding doesn’t extend much beyond knowing they won’t get arrested for buying it. As a boomer, …
North America’s Busiest Mall Plans Big Digital Upgrade; Seeking Sales Proposals March 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes Eaton Centre is a very large urban shopping mall in the heart of Toronto, just on the edges of the central business district. The mall has been around for decades and steadily evolved. It is not quite as ritzy as Yorkdale, which is well away from downtown, but Eaton Centre’s high profile location and huge …
Cannabis Dispensaries Using Digital Signage Network To Explain And Sell March 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes At a lunch with some industry folks earlier this week, we were talking about emerging vertical markets, and I said cannabis retailing was among the most opportune, because it is still early days … and because the product and dynamics beg for screens that promote and explain things. While there are lots of customers who …
Nordic Retailer Makes LG’s Transparent LED Film Part Of Flagship Store’s Design March 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Many people, myself included, have expressed a lot of interest and enthusiasm for LG’s transparent LED film, which has been shown at numerous trade shows but has not really shown up away from exhibit halls. But here’s a real world application of the film, on the mall-facing windows of a large Swedish apparel retailer’s flagship …
Digital Signage Startup Brings On Actor Mark Wahlberg As Strategic Advisor March 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes A San Francisco digital signage company has turned to the power of celebrity to help market and guide its solutions – with actor Mark Wahlberg coming on as a strategic advisor. Wahlberg had already been an early investor and customer of Raydiant’s restaurant-centric solution, deploying it in the family-owned Wahlburgers fast casual burger chain. This …
McDonald’s Confirms Sales Lifts From AI-Driven Suggestive Selling In Drive-Thru Lanes March 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes There is, unsurprisingly, precious little detail, but McDonald’s is starting to generally talk up and validate its $300M acquisition a year ago of the Israeli AI startup Dynamic Yield, which is enabling the QSR giant to optimize suggestive selling in its drive-thru lanes and elsewhere. On its Q4 2019 earnings call, President and CEO Chris …
Not Every Street Furniture Display Is A Big Slab February 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes One among many impressions I had walking around ISE a couple of weeks ago was that there were an awful lot of companies all marketing outdoor-rated displays, with me wondering if there was enough potential business out there to support them all. The other impression I had was how similar they all looked – big …
Amazon Opens First Full-Sized Go “Just walk Out” Grocery, And There Are Few Screens February 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes Amazon has opened its first full-sized Amazon Go grocery store, and just like the smaller versions it has opened to date, this store is pretty short on screens. Two years after launching a set of c-stores that didn’t have cashiers or checkout lines, using sensors and a lot of AI to allow shoppers to “just …
Japanese Cash Handling Giant Makes $223M Investment In French QSR Self-Service Firm February 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes A Japanese firm that specializes in currency and coin processing evidently sees a QSR future that is increasingly cashless, responding by investing in a French company that is seeing a lot of success in self-ordering, cashless kiosks. Glory Global Solutions (International) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GLORY Ltd., has invested $223 million USD into Acrelec, …
Video: Fantastic 3D Content Drives Experience At Vienna Airport Store February 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is fantastic – a video wall at Vienna’s airport that uses great three-dimensional creative to blend with and help market a new retail tenant. Lagardère Travel Retail opened The Fashion Gallery at the Austrian airport last fall, and used a facade that flanks the shop opening to install a 105 square meter direct view …
