Franklin Instore, Elo Team Up On Managed Services Offer For Digital Merchandising December 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The retail merchandising agency Franklin Instore has teamed up with interactive display firm Elo on a new “Digital Merchandising EcoSYSTEM” that pairs more conventional point of purchase marketing efforts with interactive displays – running with the idea of a “make once-use many” set-up that allows for repeated rebranding, re-messaging and re-merchandising a set-up based on …
Midwest Grocer Hy-Vee Opts In On Grocery TV Platform For In-Store Media Network; While Appearing To Opt Out On Samsung’s VXT December 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is intriguing – the Midwest US grocer chain Hy-Vee has announced a partnership with the in-store media network Grocery TV to deploy what it says could be 10,000+ screens across more than 400 stores. That big roll-out comes a bit more than a year after Samsung made a bunch of marketing noise about Hy-Vee using …
McDonald’s Opens Corporate Store In LA That Has No Lobby Or, By The Looks Of It, Drive-Thru Displays December 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes QSR giant McDonald’s is testing a store format in LA that has no dine-in area but also appears, at least, to not rely on outdoor drive-thru displays for taking orders. The trade publication QSR picked up on a social media post from a McDonald’s franchisee that points out a new-build prototype format that uses a …
STRATACACHE’S Chris Riegel Details Opportunities And Deadly Sins Of In-Store Retail Media December 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes If your company is chasing the retail media networks dream in some fashion – as a vendor, operator or even a brand – this podcast is well worth a listen. It is a nearly one-hour long interview with Chris Riegel of STRATACACHE, talking about the state of retail media networks, its scale and possibilities, and …
Sony Again Making Sustainability Central To ISE Exhibit Hall Presence December 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes In the wake of advancing the ISE plans of PPDS (Philips), I came across information about another big pro AV display vendor, Sony, is doing at the show in Barcelona in early February. Sustainability and ESG policies are not much of a thing beyond the largest North American companies, but it is a big discussion …
PPDS Advances ISE 2025 Presence That Includes New Philips LED And Sustainability Products December 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes The big display manufacturers have started talking up what they will be showing at ISE in Barcelona, though I think some of them might want to get CES PR out of the way before they start touting the shiny new pots and pans they will be showing off in Barcelona. PPDS, aka Philips pro displays …
Shifting From Chipsets To Vegan Sneakers: London’s LED-Filled Future Stores Gets New Tenant December 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes Intel has moved out and a VERY different brand has moved in to that hyper-ambitious immersive retailing pop-up store in central London. The new short-term tenant at the LED-dominated Futures Stores, on London’s Oxford Street, is the Scandinavian “urban-lux vegan trainer and apparel brand LØCI” – with substantial help and shared branding by the social …
Poppulo Largest CMS Company To Date To Adopt Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick As Hardware Option December 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes When etailing giant Amazon announced a couple of months ago that it had developed and was now marketing a lean version of its Fire TV HDMI sticks and specifically calling it the Amazon Signage Stick, it was reasonable to assume that the main software partners for the $100 device would be companies focused on the …
UK Grocer Nicely Fits Digital Signage New Store’s Overall Look And Feel December 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a modest but well-executed example of how screens can be integrated into a retail design, as opposed to the many examples still popping up of screens just kind of stuck in where they fit or dropped from ceilings. It is at a roadway-side Sainsbury’s grocery that’s tied in with a petrol station, in a …
Munich-Based Insurer Uses Big LCDs Instead Of Fine-Pitch LED To Bling Up Its Lobby November 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting example of a corporate client, space designer and integrator collectively opting for very large LCD over fine pitch LED to create a big digital presence in a company’s main reception area. It is the lobby of the Munich headquarters of the insurance firm WWK Versicherung, and uses four 98-inch Sony Bravia 4K …
