Toronto’s New Air Jordan Store Includes Projections, Fine Pitch Interactive LED Walls October 11, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the new Air Jordan location on Toronto’s Yonge Street – a three-level retail space that uses fine-pitch LED video walls and window projections. The store has an underground kids-only concourse and an upper athletic training facility, as well as a main, street-level retail space. To immerse guests on every floor, Nike hired local …
New Lloyds Flagship Branch Reimagines High Street Banking In UK October 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes UK-based Lloyds Bank has just opened a new flagship branch in Manchester – full of tech and customer comforts – that’s positioned as a re-imagined approach to high street banking. The branch has a coffee shop, a dedicated business hub aimed at attracting the start-up culture, free WiFi, and a lot of screens (including tabletop …
What IoT Can Bring To Digital Signage In Retail October 3, 2017 by Rob Cote GUEST POST: VIKTOR PETERSSON, SCREENLY & DOMINIQUE GUINARD, EVRYTHNG Many years ago, the recipe for a successful digital signage deployment was to put up a few screens in the store, and load them with an image slideshow (or video slide if you were on the forefront). Those days are long gone. Today, It takes a …
Women’s Lifestyle Publisher Marie Claire Opens Tech-Filled Next Big Thing Pop-up Shop In NYC September 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes In a slightly odd twist, the women’s fashion and beauty publisher Marie Claire has teamed up with Mastercard to open a pop-up shop in New York this fall, called The Next Big Thing Concept Shop because it features what’s perceived as whiz-bang interactive retailing technology. The store at 120 Wooster in Soho, open until the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Laura Davis-Taylor, High Street September 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes Laura Davis-Taylor is a really well-known and much-loved expert when it comes to how digital fits in retail. She was a consultant for many years, but more recently has worked for some very large agencies – dealing with equally large retail and brand accounts. Now she’s back doing the consulting thing, by her choice. She’s …
Sephora, Uniqlo Add Digitally-Rich Flagship Stores In Barcelona September 26, 2017 by Dave Haynes Information is limited from official channels, but I have seen word here and there about a pair of digitally-rich flagship retail stores opening in Barcelona – for Sephora and Uniqlo. The Sephora concept store appears to have a long corridor leading to the cosmetics shop flanked by a series of tall, fine-pitch LED panels, and …
Canadian Vacations Provider Sunwing Opens Digitally-Rich Pop-Up Store September 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Canadian vacation travel company Sunwing has opened a pop-up store in one of Canada’s busiest and ritziest shopping malls, using big visuals and a lot of technology to get shoppers at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall thinking about booking a flight to the tropics for when the snow flies. The Sunwing Concept Store was pulled together by Toronto’s bricks+matter – …
Chinese Restaurant Launches With Kiosks That Enable Ordering And Payment Via Facial Recognition September 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes Self-service ordering stations on touch-driven displays are getting mainstreamed by giant QSRs like McDonald’s, but a Chinese company tied in with KFC is taking the tech a step further by building facial recognition and payments into the screens. Yum China Holdings has launched a new restaurant concept, KPRO by KFC, in Hangzhou, China (near Shanghai) …
Projects: 7-Metre-Wide High Street Window LED Kicks Off New Boot September 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes As seen on Linkedin This is a nice temporary installation in a high street window, in central London, using a one metre tall by seven metres wide fine pitch LED wall to highlight the launch of a new boot by Clarks Shoes. I like how the design team used print graphics to frame the digital …
Despite All The Gloomy Stories, U.S. Bricks and Mortar Retail Growing August 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes If your company chases business in retail, you’ll know it’s a tough slog for a bunch of reasons, and you’ll also have heard and read no end of stories about how brick and mortar retail is in a death spiral. Turns out that’s not really true. The National Retail Federation says the industry may indeed …
