Another Hung Timmie’s Screen – At Old Main Office August 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes A reader sent along a couple of photos from a digital menuboard set-up at Tim Hortons. Stuff happens, things hang, but it happens a LOT lately at the Canadian coffee chain, which would have something like 20,000-plus screens in stores across the country. This one is interesting because it is at the site of the …
Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe July 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café.” It will have nitro-infused cold brew coffee, americanos, lattes, cappuccinos, flat whites, cortados, macchiatos and all …
Pop-Up Shop In Flashy UK Mall Uses AI To Highlight Trendiest Togs July 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes The major shopping center Westfield London has launched a pop-up store that uses artificial intelligence from Nextatlas to identify, curate and display the hottest fashion trends available in that mall. It’s a short-term demo, with proceeds going to the Save The Children charity. The online retail public Essential Retail reports: The Trending Store pop-up, which will …
Family Fare Grocery Chain Using Digital Merchandising Displays And End-Caps June 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here are a couple of different digital merchandising displays put together for the Family Fare supermarket chain by another Grand Rapids’ MI-based company, Freshwater Digital. One is a digital end cap marketing what I assume are hemp-based CBD oil products, with the interesting wrinkle that a small tablet is down at waist level to enable interactive …
Two Examples Of Low Rez LED Displays That Are More Mood Than Message June 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a couple of examples of low-resolution LED display applications that use blend with fabric or film to create soft, diffused visuals that are meant as motion backdrops or accents. The first is a fixture by the NYC printing company Duggal, which has a digital wing and created an interesting spin-out product called . The …
Atlanta’s High Street Collective Launches Living Retail Lab (And It Has A Bar!) June 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes The retail innovation consultancy HighStreet Collective has launched what it calls a Living Retail Lab, a unique project inside a city market in High Street’s hometown of Atlanta. The boutique consultancy has also formalized a partnership with NEC, to use that company’s retail-centric intelligence analytics platform, called ALP, at the lab. Instead of a pure lab …
Mall Campaign Uses Video, Mobile Analytics To Optimize Messages, Boost Foot Traffic To Stores June 5, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is an effective video from Cineplex Digital Media that shows how using video and mobile analytics, as well as machine learning tech, helped increase foot traffic into the outlets of a couple of beauty brands operating at Toronto’s big, busy and ritzy Yorkdale mall. The video explains it all, but briefly, a two-week test …
Expanded UNIQLO Store Takes Big Steps With LED May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes The expanded UNIQLO store at Toronto Eaton Centre – a huge indoor mall in the city’s central business district – has a staircase that’s now lined with LED risers. The stairs were custom-made by Ottawa’s UTG Digital Media for the expansion. They are 27 feet wide and have 13 shock-absorbent steps, all of which can display …
Fab Stanghieri On Why Canada’s Biggest Cinema Company Is In Digital Signage May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Canadians all know Cineplex as the dominant movie theater chain in that country, and the Toronto-based company has also been expanding its reach, in recent years, into other related lines of business. Cineplex now has entertainment-centric restaurant-bars, is bringing Top Golf into Canada, sells out of home media and runs a thriving digital media group …
New Liverpool Seven Store Makes Digital Signage A Focal Point May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Some nice uses of narrow bezel Philips LCD displays in this new Seven apparel store in Liverpool, put in by the UK solutions provider Skratch. Not really sure about the big green wall with the shoe display shelves. Don’t see bezels, so I am either missing that in the pic, it’s LED ($$$!!!), or a …
