Ferrari Dealer Switches Out Paper Showroom Fact Sheets For E-Paper Tags May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes The guys at Freshwater Digital have built up knowledge and experience working with e-paper signs – or what they call digital tags – and introduced them into interesting use cases. I know the Grand Rapids, MI solution provider has a research client using them at stations to automatically update findings and status. Now, in a …
Walmart Opens AI-Driven Intelligent Retail Lab Outside NYC May 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining …
Canada’s Mountain Equipment Coop Outsources In-Store Digital Signage To Cineplex April 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes Immediately on the heels of my rant about a sporting goods retailer doing digital signage badly comes word of another Canadian retailer – also kinda sorta in the same category – expanding and revising its in-store digital signage. Mountain Equipment Coop, or MEC, is very much like REI in the United States – with goods …
The Store With The Most Screens Doesn’t Necessarily Win April 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes Canadian sporting goods and apparel retailer SportChek has large footprint shopping mall and standalone stores across the country and has, for many years now, been an early and enthusiastic adopter of digital signage technology. On one hand, it has been great to see a retailer making a big investment in screens and related hardware and …
Blended Reality Nail Polish Kiosks Drive 24% Sales Bumps April 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes The global beauty company COTY is using free-standing blended reality kiosks to help demo and sell a line of nail polish products, and has seen 24% sales bumps at locations where they are plugged in. There are more than 400 units – marketing nail polish from the COTY brand OPI – in third-party stores around …
LED Mesh Screens Have Come A Long Way, But … April 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes There were numerous overseas vendors at ISE – and I expect to see more at Infocomm in a couple of months – showing mesh-screen LED displays. They have come a long way in a relatively short time, and when running, the pixel pitch of these things can be good enough to deliver crisp, rich and …
Levi’s Time Square Flagship Uses 1,000+ Sq. Ft. Of LED To Drive In-Store Experience March 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes The new-ish Levi’s flagship store in Times Square in New York City (lotsa posts lately about NYC and Times Square!) is, at nearly 17,000 square feet, the apparel company’s largest flagship. It’s a multi-level shop, opened last fall, that goes big on AV – notably fine pitch D3 LED displays, run by Reflect CMS software and …
The First Neiman-Marcus In NYC Has Plenty Of Interactive Retail Tech March 14, 2019 by Dave Haynes Via Retail Info Systems New York City may be a retail mecca, but it has never had a Neiman-Marcus store. That changes tomorrow as the Dallas-based luxury department store opens a whiz-bang three-level branch in Hudson Yards, the massive, high-end development west of Times Square and across the street from the Javits Center. The 188,000-square-foot, …
Shoptalk Day 2 Impressions – New Retail Is All About Personalization March 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes If there was a broad theme I could pick up from two days of listening to various retail operators and investors, and wandering the exhibit hall of Shoptalk, it was personalization. Just about anyone I heard spoke about a need for retailers to create a shopping experience that was more relevant and personal to each …
My Day One Impressions From The Shoptalk Retail Show In Las Vegas March 5, 2019 by Dave Haynes I am in Las Vegas attending Shoptalk, a retail tech conference that has some 8,400 attendees and a way bigger trade show hall than I expected. The conference side of Shoptalk is what compelled me to get on a long flight here, just three weeks before I need to be back for Digital Signage Expo. …
