Hungary’s Telenor Uses IntuiLab’s DIY Tools To Build Interactive Shopper Experiences December 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Hungarian wireless carrier Telenor has opened 13 digital concept stores this year that try to bridge how their customers work with them on mobile and on desktops, with interactive digital stations in the store. “We see that our customers start prefering our electronic channels over traditional customer service: they purchase their devices in our webshop, …
NYC’s Transit Uses Own Subway Kiosks To Market Transit Souvenirs December 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes NYC’s Transit department has taken an interesting approach to monetizing the interactive kiosks on many of its subway platforms – selling souvenir items from its own museum. The New York Transit Museum Holiday Gift Guide takes some of the museum’s more popular items and showcases them for riders as they wait for trains at more than 33 stations …
Skin Care Firm Dermalogica Adds Lift And Learn To In-Store Digital December 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes The UK skin care brand Dermalogica has streamlined a range of digital displays in its retail locations – putting them on a network and adding new smart signage displays to drive promotions and build up its “Hero” products. The company has started rolling out a solution in stores, put together by systems integrator Solutions AV, that uses IAdea …
Aussie Beauty Retailer MECCA Brands Opening “Connected” Stores December 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Australian beauty retailer MECCA Brands has started opening what it has dubbed “connected” store – loaded with digital displays intended to connect with customers. A shop at Myer Melbourne was the first to get a set-up that includes a total of six 2×1 55? portrait columns, plus a giant 65? single landscape display. There is also …
In Digital Signage, Bigger Is Not Always The Answer December 9, 2016 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Jørn Olsen, Pronto TV I used to have an old wooden boat that I would spend a lot of time maintaining and polishing every autumn, to be ready for the next summer. Every year, my “boat-neighbors” swapped their boats to something a little bigger than last season. Instead of changing my boat every year, …
Forget Self-Checkout – Amazon Opens Checkout-Free Store In Seattle December 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Amazon has opened what amounts to a neighborhood grocery near its Seattle headquarters that totally eliminates checkouts and cash registers, allowing people to walk in, grab what they want, and leave – the purchases all tracked through shopper smartphones and the cloud. The 1,800 sq. ft.Amazon Go store is now open as a test for …
North Face Hangs Atmospheric Video Walls In Palo Alto Flagship Store December 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Retail Design Blog Here’s some shots, but not much digital signage detail, about a North Face flagship store that opened earlier this year in the very high rent district of Palo Alto, California, at the shopping center in the shadows of Stanford University. The images come from Retail Design Blog, and it details a …
Projects: Mall Of America Adds Slim Digital Wayfinders November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a slightly different take on shopping mall wayfinding: smaller screens set at angles, instead of the jumbo vertical screens you mostly see in malls these days. This is at the Mall of America in Minneapolis – which I believe remains the largest shopping mall in the U.S. – and there are six of these, …
Ebay Pop-Ups Use Face Pattern Tech To Determine Gifts You Really Want To Buy November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they really should buy and put under the tree for loved ones. The idea is that the biometrics tech – touted among other things as capable of measuring emotional responses – will …
Projects: Poland’s Posnania Lights Up Ambitious Digital Sign Program November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. There are some 100 …
