Projects: Samsung Opens Digitally-Rich, Product-Less Manhattan Flagship Store February 22, 2016 by Super User Hat tip to Rob Gorrie for flagging this via LinkedIn … Here’s an interesting take by Samsung on flagship store design – a new one that doesn’t actually sell stock any product. Called Samsung 837, the store opens today at 837 Washington Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Reports Fast Company: Instead of endless product shelves, the …
In Digital Signage, Old Can Be New Again … Apparently February 1, 2016 by Super User It was about a year ago at some trade show that I walked by a vendor booth that was trumpeting how lifting an item off a shelf would trigger content on a screen. And wasn’t that amazing!!! Well, it was kinda neat when I saw it for the first time eight or nine years earlier, …
Projects: Risotto Ball Sales Explode After UK Chain Adds Digital Menus January 28, 2016 by Super User So first – there are fast food stops for risotto balls? Second, if you market them using digital menus, sales may get a very nice bump. That’s what happened last fall for London, UK risotto ball specialists, Arancini Brothers, when the chain converted traditional menu posters to digital displays. UK-based digital signage company Eclipse Digital …
Cineplex Wins Big DQ RFP For US, Canada Digital Menu Boards January 27, 2016 by Super User Cineplex Digital Media, previously known as EK3, has bagged the deal with American Dairy Queen Corporation to be the fast food giant’s “endorsed provider” of in-store digital merchandising solution, aka menu boards, in the US and Canada. The company says it won the deal “after an extensive audit and request for proposal process with over 30 …
18 Surprising Statistics About Digital Signage January 27, 2016 by Sean Levy GUEST POST: Irfan Khan, SkyKit As a savvy businessperson, you know that digital signage is a huge, well-established market. You see them everywhere: promoting a new product in the store, advertising deals outside pharmacies—perhaps even touting diaper rash cream, as one sign in my hometown has done for at least the last five years. You’ve …
NRF Review – Digital Technology: The New Way Of Retail January 26, 2016 by Josh Gross GUEST POST: TARA PARACHUK, ARMODILO If you are a retailer looking to engage your customers with digital technology, NRF was the place to be! Retail’s Big Show 2016 showcased a variety of ways retailers can learn more about their customers from their current emotional state to every possible type of analytics you can imagine. Here’s an …
Elo Adds Android Modules To Retail-Centric Touch Displays January 25, 2016 by Super User On the heels of Panasonic announcing a System on Chip pro display panel comes word that Elo – among the oldest and biggest companies involved in touchscreen tech – now has ARM-based micro computer modules paired with some of its displays, running Android. This new Android Elo Computer Module (Android ECM) accessory, says the Silicon …
Lexmark Enters Crowded QSR Digital Menu Board Business January 19, 2016 by Super User The printer company Lexmark was at National Retail Federation show a year ago with what I described then as shrug-inducing. A year later, the company is back at NRF and marketing what would appear to be a more evolved solution aimed at QSRs. The Digital Menu Board solution being touted through today at the giant …
Are Shopping Mall Wayfinding Directories Still Relevant? December 14, 2015 by Super User I find myself in a lot of shopping malls during my travels, but not because I’m a voracious consumer. It’s rare when I even walk in stores. I’m there out of curiosity – looking at what the landlords and tenants are doing with the physical design and the digital experience. A couple of weeks ago …
Projects: Vodafone Goes Big On Digital Signage Down Under December 9, 2015 by Super User Mobile network operator Vodafone’s Australian wing has gone big on digital signage in its retail stores, switching on a national network that will exceed more than 1,200 screens before the year is out. Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s business case for integrating digital into the store design was a reduction of its dependencies on printed in-store material, and …
