Uniqlo Adds Interactive Vending Machines August 7, 2017 by Super User Japanese fast-fashion apparel retailer Uniqlo is installing a test wave of interactive vending machines in U.S. malls and airport concourses – in a move reminiscent of what Best Buy has done with gadget vending machines in airports. The vending units have a big interactive touch screen on the front and will dispense two SKUs – heat-retaining …
Dutch Lingerie Retailer Offers Sensory Experience In Flagships August 3, 2017 by Super User Scala has circulated a good case study about the work it has been doing with systems integrator partner DOBIT for the European lingerie retailer Hunkemo?ller, particularly in flagship high street stores like the one in the video. The Amsterdam-based brand has 180 stores in the Netherlands and 100 more in Belgium and Luxembourg, The set-up does …
Projects: Local UK Tourism Council Builds Digital Attractions Stand July 31, 2017 by Super User A project doesn’t need to be big and expensive to be well done and effective. Here’s a simple but well executed tourism application that adds digital to an attractions brochure rack. The borough of Pendle in the UK created a visitor information point in the café area of retailer Boundary Mill’s flagship store outlet, based …
Toys R Us Tests Interactive Screens, Digital Endcaps In Vancouver Concept Store July 26, 2017 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media is working Toys “R” Us on a new digital store concept that blends digital endcaps, interactive look-up screens and point of sale kiosks. The concept is being tested at a store in the greater Vancouver area. “Our Langley store is the evolution of our digital future,” says Clint Gaudry, Vice President, Marketing & Store …
Projects: Selfridge’s Takes Its Staff Communications Digital July 20, 2017 by Super User This is a look inside how digital signage is being used for internal communications by iconic UK retailer Selfridges. AV integrator AVMI has put a high-impact LED wall at the London offices’ “Team Tunnel” and a network of over 30 Samsung Smart Signage screens at Selfridges office and retail locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and London. …
Kiwi C-Store Chain’s Digital Signage Screens Drive Triple-Digit Sales July 18, 2017 by Super User Sales lift stories tend to be hard to come by from retailers and brands using digital signage, often because they’re not overly motivated to tell competitors what’s working. But here’s a short case study out of New Zealand about screens in the forecourts and inside New Zealand BP gas stations and c-stores. BP New Zealand …
If Retail Is Your Digital Signage Vertical, The Numbers Aren’t Looking Great June 5, 2017 by Super User When I ask digital signage solutions providers about the verticals they chase, most will mention retail, but few say that’s where they are highly-focused. Good thing, given that the scale of retail is not tipping the right way. A Business Insider story notes Credit Suisse research work that suggests retailers are closing stores in the …
Canada’s PharmaChoice Rolls Out Advice For Life Digital Signage Network In Stores May 29, 2017 by Super User Canada’s second-largest independent pharmacy banner PharmaChoice is going ahead with plans for a national rollout of an in-store digital signage network, branded as the Advice for Life Network. The screens are primarily in place to deliver a mix of PharmaChoice-sponsored healthy tips for their customers, and local content specific to each location. There will also …
Projects: Mall’s Center Court Tree Gets LCD Display Ornaments May 23, 2017 by Super User Not really sure what I think of this … Certainly gets points for being different. But a bunch of LCDs dangling like Christmas ornaments around a living ficus tree in the middle of a mall, I dunno … This is the set-up, launched I think in 2014, at the Louis Joliet Mall in way suburban Chicago. The tree is surrounded …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Lee Summers, CEO of Reflect May 10, 2017 by Super User Lee Summers is only a few months into his job as CEO of Reflect, but neither the industry or the company were unfamiliar when he took over at the company’s Dallas head office earlier this year. In an unusual twist, he’d been on the other side of the table, as one of Reflect’s highest profile …
