Samsung has done an interesting partnership that sees its SMART Signage all-in-one display platform as new endpoints for content published out of what’s marketed ... […]
Retail Store Tours, a NY company that does customized walkabouts focused on retail innovation, is doing a press-only 2023 Retail Trends event next month ... […]
Much of the attention as we have shifted into the new year and trade show season was focused on CES in Las Vegas, but ... […]
The National RetaiI Federation in the U.S. has announced it is pushing back the dates for its annual trade show and conference in New York City from mid-January to early June. The retail industry’s largest show, which is heavily focused on tech and attracts numerous vendors from the digital signage ecosystem, will now run June 6-8, 2021. […]
I am skipping the NRF retail show in NYC this week – every 2-3 years is enough for me – but there are plenty of digital signage vendors there, some making a very large investment. STRATACACHE had a very large booth last year and it appears to be much the same for 2020 – we’re talking seven figures investment, I’d think. […]
This is a special edition of the podcast, which I am pretty much whacking together myself, in the wake of running around the NRF show last week in New York. I had my handy little Tascam recorder with me, so I grabbed some quick interviews with several companies I bumped into, with the idea of stitching them together in a round-up. These are not the biggest companies. […]
Sitting at Newark airport, heading back to East Coast Canada, after the National Retail Federation trade show in New York. I don’t go every year, so I can’t pass on year to year impressions. But I have been several times, including 2 or 3 times in the last five years. […]
One of the biggest payments tech companies around has found a display provider to partner on interactive kiosks that embed payment capabilities in the actual screen, instead of beside it or virtually using phones. […]
Microsoft and the US grocer Kroger have partnered on a new connected store product – built around shelf-edge screens and cloud computing – called Retail as a Service (or RaaS). The idea is to streamline shopping for things like groceries, using smart shelves and things like portable scanners. […]
NRF is not a digital signage show. There are lots of signage vendors at the show – with booths or just walking around. It’s a retail tech show full of stuff that will be largely unfamiliar if you live and work in the digital signage bubble. […]
This is a special edition of the 16:9 Podcast – special because the format’s a little different and because I’m turning this around too quickly to get it polished up by the guy who sound engineers these things. So no music. Maybe a bit more background noise. […]
Taiwan-based AOPEN started showing off a pair of new commercial-grade Chrome devices yesterday at the NRF show – a smaller, much cheaper solid state Chromebox and a tablet-sized Chromebase. The latter, the Chromebase Mini, is a 10.1 inch all-in-one touchscreen that would compete with commercial-grade tablets and small system on chip displays. […]
The National Retail Federation’s big annual trade show starts up on Sunday in New York, and I was very happy to learn it should be mid 40sF and sunny when I get in. I have been at that show other Januarys when the winter wind coming off the Hudson chilled anyone to the bone. […]
I’m starting to become a bit of a believer in virtual reality as being relevant beyond gaming and some highly specialized applications, and looking forward to checking out an Italian start-up called inVRsion at NRF in New York mid-month. […]
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. […]
