Is This The Most Digital Signage-Rich Store In Canada? January 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. Or cohesive. …
Retail Phone Charging Station Uses Fingerprint Scan For Security December 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes Phone charger stations with screens on top are nothing new, but an Ottawa digital signage company has come up with a clever spin on the set-up. To stow and charge your phone, you slip your phone in a bay, plug in and scan your fingerprint. The Ottawa-based company has two units installed earlier this month …
China’s KFC Testing Facial Recognition Software For Suggestive Selling December 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes In a move that seems much more a gimmick than a boost of customer experience, the Chinese business unit of KFC is using video analytics at an interactive screen to suggest what customers might like to order, based on what they generally look like. As reported in TechCrunch, and re-reported all over the place based …
Superdry’s Berlin Flagship Tries On Gesture-based Virtual Dressing Room December 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Retail Design Blog https://vimeo.com/195329834 I have mixed feelings about an interactive virtual dressing room-ish display set up at the new Berlin flagship store of apparel retailer Superdry. Put together by London-based SeymourPowell, it’s touted as an interactive “smart mirror” but the display is not a mirror and doesn’t use mirror glass … so, umm, it’s not. …
Here’s A Pair Of Amazing LED Curtain Ceilings In Chinese Shopping Malls December 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m not quite sure what all these projects are about, or where they are located (other than China), but they look very nice. These are shots supplied by the Shenzhen-based LED manufacture Gtek. While it undoubtedly invests a lot in R&D, they company could stand to invest a couple of bucks in a competent translator – as …
NCR Sales Rep Probably Dancing After Bagging Bojangles Rollout December 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The big POS company NCR, which now calls itself a leader in omni-channel solutions, has bagged a deal to provide the digital signage solution for the Southern US-centric fast food chain Bojangles. The chain will use NCR Vitalcast at its company-owned stores, which makes up more than 40% of the total stores in the roughly 700-unit Bojangles …
Retail Strategist: We’re Moving Away From Gimmickry And Gadgetry December 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes I love this quote in the Toronto Star, from the head of Retail Strategy for Accenture in Canada: “(We’re going to be) moving away from some of the gimmicky and gadgetry that we’ve seen until now, like digital screens you can interact with but they don’t really add to the experience,” said Kelly Askew. Yeah. …
Cool: Italian Sports Retailer Projects Video On Flagship Store’s Fixtures December 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Retail Design Blog This is a cool application of projection in retail – running video right on or through the perforated metal bulkheads of store fixtures. The images are from Game 7 Athletics, an Italian multi-brand sports retailer that has opened a flagship store inside the Arese shopping center in Milan. The store design was …
Fast Fashion Etailer Missguided’s First Physical Shop Has More Than 30 Screens December 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Spotted in Retail Gazette Here’s a look inside the first bricks and mortar shop for the online fast-fashion brand Missguided – a 20,000 sq. ft. shop in London’s Westfield Stratford shopping mall. It opened about three weeks ago. Integrator Smart LED put in two big 3.9mm high resolution LED walls at the payment areas, and then there are …
Rent The Runway Opens Digitally-Savvy NYC Flagship December 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes The upstart fashion retailer Rent The Runway – which rents designer clothes to women somewhat the way men have rented formal wear for many years – has opened a digitally-savvy flagship store in lower Manhattan. The store on W. 15th Street uses a variety of Samsung displays, including 32-inch touchscreen tandems that cycle through visuals but …
