The fast-moving hospitality industry is always looking for novel ways to differentiate their brands while increasing ROI and loyalty based on enhanced customer experiences. Litemax’s latest interactive circular 33-inch display is a resized LCD ideal for use in bar tables installed in cafes and restaurants. […]
The metering of access into stores and appointment-based retailing that came up by necessity in the past 15 months will stick around, in some fashion, so digital signage solution providers will likely see more and more demand for queue management tools. Those can be built – which can be expensive and time-consuming, and probably hard. […]
Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis This post first appeared in the German language publication managed by Invidis. […]
Here’s a real-world example of why QSR restaurant franchise owners would make what can be substantial capital investments to convert from analog to digital menus at their stores. Operators of Smoothie King franchises in several U.S. states have been converting menu displays inside and outside to digital to speed turnarounds on changes and have a degree of local control. […]
This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. […]
One of the reasons that LED display manufacturers have turned to bundled products and fixed sizes is that they say the pro AV ecosystem, as a whole, is still somewhat unfamiliar with the technology and how it goes together. So they struggle to sell something they don’t totally understand – given all the references to pitches and diodes and modules and cabinets and on and on. […]
The tech blog VentureBeat has an interesting post up about how major QSR chains are following the lead of McDonald’s by applying artificial intelligence for driving sales and customer experience. It notes that Burger King worked with Intel and an AI company to come up with a recommendation engine for touchscreen ordering. […]
This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. […]
I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread adoption. […]
LED gets all the attention for video walls these days, but there are still retail projects going in that take advantage of the lower cost and resolution of narrow bezel LCD displays. This is a pop-up store in Hamburg, Germany, run by Concept Cycles but built for the premium partner brand Specialized. The 300 sq. […]
Thanks to Samsung’s digital display technology, several Smoothie King locations in the Southern and Midwestern U.S. were able to optimize visual presentation and help support a drive-thru business that served the vast majority of customers during the pandemic. […]
Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a transparent display. […]
This is an in-aisle merchandising set-up used by Coca-Cola in a supermarket chain in Russia. It is installed in Perekrestok (Crossroad, in English), in a mall in Moscow’s central business district. I don’t know whose LED ribbons are being used, but the CMS and play-out engine is the Swiss firm SpinetiX. […]
LG Business Solutions is releasing Pro:Centric Catena, a new display management system for businesses that allows for direct audio streaming to customers’ devices and gives integrators and end users more options to remotely manage displays. […]
Toshiba has confirmed that a European business unit that sells digital signage and other technology primarily to retail customers is the victim of a cyberattack. According to news reports, the ransomware gang that has been blamed for the attack on the Colonial Pipeline is involved. […]
