Vitamin Shoppe’s New Innovation Store Includes Clever Product Look-Up Screen October 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the newly-opened innovation store/store of the future for Vitamin Shoppe, which sells guess what. The store in Edgewater, NJ (pretty much across the Hudson from the Harlem district of NYC) has been updated with a new design and layout, but I mention this job because the store does a couple of things with …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
Matt Schmitt On Why Retail-centric Reflect Got Into Advertising Software October 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes Reflect is one of the longest running companies in the digital signage sector – operating out of Dallas since 2001. The company built up its CMS software business largely in retail, but in early 2017 did something of a pivot into ad scheduling and targeting. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To …
Mood Media Gets Retail Music, Digital Signage Working Together With New Harmony CMS October 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes Austin, TV-based Mood Media has come up with an interesting cross-media solution aimed at making it easier to control a variety of “experiences” in retail settings off of a single platform. Called Harmony, the software and underlying technology platform lets retail operators “connect and manage all of their in-store content – including music, messaging, visuals …
Screens Above NZ Shoe Store Hacked To Run Porn Video September 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that someone – presumably hackers – penetrated the media play-out device that drives content on the …
McKinsey Opening Test Lab Store In Mall Of America September 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes The huge management consultant firm McKinsey & Company is opening a retail test lab store tomorrow that’s designed to try out and analyze different technologies touted to transform shopping experiences. The store – called Modern Retail Collective – opens Friday at the vast Mall of America, in suburban Minneapolis. McKinsey says this differs from other …
Research: Menu Board Testing Shows Differences Images And Motion Make On Sales September 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based High Street Collective has now released the results of a first round of testing at a local store that doubles as a “Living Retail Lab” for digital initiatives. The owner of Citizen Supply, located inside Atlanta’s Ponce City Market, built a bar and lounge inside his store in early 2019 and called it Likewise, …
Spectrio Acquires In-Store Interactive Digital Signage Firm VS Networks August 27, 2019 by Dave Haynes The US-based in-store marketing solutions firm Spectrio has acquired/merged with VS Networks, a Chicago company that appears to do digital signage and interactive screens for brands in retail environments, like hardware stores. Spectrio says the deal means it now powers more than 50,000 screens that drive in-store sales and create engaging customer experiences. Says a …
A Look Around Taipei, From A Digital Signage POV August 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes I am in Taipei all this week for a trade show called Touch Taiwan, which opens Wednesday. I got in Sunday so I could look around, get some meetings in ahead of the show, and try to overcome a 13-hour time difference. First two things worked. But it is 2 AM and I am bug-eyed, …
Controlled Retail Tests Show 800%+ Sales Bump Using Triggered Digital Signage Messaging August 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes Digital signage end-users in hyper-competitive sectors like retail and quick service restaurants have always tended to keep their cards really close to their chest when it comes to talking about the actual impact of digital signage networks. Why would they want to share results that inform and guide competitors? There’s also the problem of all …
