LEDs Create Faux Stained Glass Ceiling In Luxe Mexican Department Store February 21, 2018 by Super User The centerpiece of a $300 million reno job at the largest department store in Latin America – Al Palacio de los Palacios in Mexico City – is a full ceiling LED display. It’s meant as a budget-friendly and totally changeable alternative to a more traditional stained glass ceiling. “Al Palacio de los Palacios is arguably the …
16:9 Projects Podcast: True Customer Experience At Toronto’s Air Jordan Store February 9, 2018 by Super User The new Air Jordan store, opened in downtown Toronto in 2017, is a three-story retail environment created with the notion of providing a true customer experience. It features an underground kids-only concourse, an industrial-designed retail level, and an upper athletic training facility. While digital signage is limited to just two areas on the top floor, …
Video: ComQi Puts Retail Tech In Context With Pop-Up Store January 29, 2018 by Super User The digital signage industry has gradually come around to the idea that buyers are less interested in how things work than they are in what the things will do for them. You see that reflected in trade show booths that are increasingly putting the technology in context, like faux retail settings. The next step, logically, …
Cineplex Wins Turnkey Deal To Run QSR Menu Boards For Biggest McDonald’s Franchisee On Planet January 26, 2018 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media has done a deal with a company billed as the largest independent McDonald’s franchisee in the world to deploy, maintain and operate digital menu boards at McDonald’s locations way south in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Cineplex (CDM) will work alongside Arcos Dorados to provide ongoing strategic creative content, consulting services …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rob Gorrie, Bricks + Matter December 20, 2017 by Super User Rob Gorrie is among the most digitally-savvy and sharp people I know – some of that based on the DNA of a family that’s been doing marketing for more than a century. But it’s also based on a pile of real world experience starting and running digital companies. The one Gorrie’s been focused on for …
LCBO Pop-Up Booze Store Uses Digital Touchpoints To Market Wine, Whiskey December 19, 2017 by Super User When I think of pop-up stores, I think apparel start-ups. But in Toronto, Ontario’s giant booze monopoly is running a pop-up store for the holiday season that includes several digital components. The LCBO Pop-Up west of downtown Toronto, at the hipstery nexus of King Street and Portland, was set up to build awareness and attract new customers …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Manolo Almagro, Q Division December 13, 2017 by Super User Just last week Manolo Almagro pulled the curtains back on a new company he’s started, under the umbrella of Chris Riegel’s ever-growing STRATACACHE empire. It’s called Q Division, a retail tech consultancy that in many respects is the sum total reflection of 20-plus years that Manny has been around tech, in a crazy variety of …
Giant LED Arch In Oslo Airport Pharmacy Puts Travelers In Holiday Mood December 8, 2017 by Super User This is the Oslo International Airport flagship store of the pharmacy chain Apotek 1, which is part of a big pharmaceutical trader in Europe. It’s probably the first time I’ve seen direct view LED used in a big way at a drug store – in this case a nine metres wide by three tall 3.9mm …
STRATACACHE Launches Q Division Retail Consultancy; Led By Manolo Almagro December 7, 2017 by Super User STRATACACHE has quietly recruited, developed and launched a new retail technology consultancy called Q Division, led by one of the better known tech gurus and geeks in this business, Manolo Almagro. The company has been up for at least a few weeks now, but was formally announced today. Q Division is described as a team …
Video: LCD Shelf Label Strips At Gatwick Duty Free Drive 40%-50% Sales Lift November 29, 2017 by Super User A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick …
