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16:9: North America’s Busiest Mall Plans Big Digital Upgrade; Seeking Sales Proposals

Eaton Centre is a very large urban shopping mall in the heart of Toronto, just on the edges of the central business district.  The mall has been around for decades and steadily evolved. It is not quite as ritzy as Yorkdale, which is well away from downtown, but Eaton Centre’s high profile location and huge foot traffic attract a lot of premium retailers. […]

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Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 7:22 AM

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16:9: How Cannabis Dispensaries Use Digital Signage Network To Explain And Sell

At a lunch with some industry folks earlier this week, we were talking about emerging vertical markets, and I said cannabis retailing was among the most opportune, because it is still early days … and because the product and dynamics beg for screens that promote and explain things. […]

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Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 8:38 AM

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16:9: Nordic Retailer Makes LG’s Transparent LED Film Part Of Flagship Store’s Design

Many people, myself included, have expressed a lot of interest and enthusiasm for LG’s transparent LED film, which has been shown at numerous trade shows but has not really shown up away from exhibit halls. […]

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Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:41 AM

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16:9: LA Digital Signage Startup Brings On Actor Mark Wahlberg As Strategic Advisor

A San Francisco digital signage company has turned to the power of celebrity to help market and guide its solutions – with actor Mark Wahlberg coming on as a strategic advisor. Wahlberg had already been an early investor and customer of Raydiant’s restaurant-centric solution, deploying it in the family-owned Wahlburgers fast casual burger chain. […]

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Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:44 AM

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16:9: McDonald’s Confirms Sales Lifts From AI-Driven Suggestive Selling In Drive-Thru Lanes

There is, unsurprisingly, precious little detail, but McDonald’s is starting to generally talk up and validate its $300M acquisition a year ago of the Israeli AI startup Dynamic Yield, which is enabling the QSR giant to optimize suggestive selling in its drive-thru lanes and elsewhere. […]

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Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:48 AM

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16:9: Not Every Street Furniture Display Is A Big Slab

One among many impressions I had walking around ISE a couple of weeks ago was that there were an awful lot of companies all marketing outdoor-rated displays, with me wondering if there was enough potential business out there to support them all. The other impression I had was how similar they all looked – big brushed stainless steel or powder-coated black vertical slabs. […]

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Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:31 AM

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16:9: Amazon Opens First Full-Sized Go “Just walk Out” Grocery, And There Are Few Screens

Amazon has opened its first full-sized Amazon Go grocery store, and just like the smaller versions it has opened to date, this store is pretty short on screens. Two years after launching a set of c-stores that didn’t have cashiers or checkout lines, using sensors and a lot of AI to allow shoppers to “just walk out”, a new 7,700 sq. […]

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Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:33 PM

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16:9: Japanese Cash Handling Giant Makes $223M Investment In French QSR Self-Service Firm

A Japanese firm that specializes in currency and coin processing evidently sees a QSR future that is increasingly cashless, responding by investing in a French company that is seeing a lot of success in self-ordering, cashless kiosks. […]

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Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:32 AM

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Video: Fantastic 3D Content Drives Experience At Vienna Airport Store

This is fantastic – a video wall at Vienna’s airport that uses great three-dimensional creative to blend with and help market a new retail tenant. […]

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Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:31 AM

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55 Inch High Vibrance Advertising Displays – IN STOCK NOW

Following on from a successful launch last month, Allsee is delighted to announce that 55” High Vibrance Android Advertising Displays are now in stock and available for immediate dispatch. Designed for brightly lit interiors such as retail stores and shopping centres these screens are designed to get attention. […]

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Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:45 AM

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16:9: Dominos Starts Using Digital Signage To Improve Mobile Order Pickup

If you have that industry disorder that has you walking into places and thinking about where to position screens, then you will have likely walked into quick service restaurants and wondered why operators who enable mobile pickups aren’t using digital signage. […]

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Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:20 PM

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16:9: Digital Signage Tech Firm ComQi Acquires JohnRyan; Companies Will Operate Separately, Chasing Different Verticals

A couple of long-running digital signage CMS companies have linked up, with NYC-based ComQi acquiring Minneapolis-based JohnRyan. The deal, which is formalized today but comes with no details on $$ or terms, sees both companies operating as their own entities and brands, but with some cross-pollination expected on things like sales and R&D. […]

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Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 2:00 PM

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16:9: Home Depot Testing Part Finder Search Kiosks

Home Depot is piloting interesting technology that bridges a scanner, screen and presumably AI-based visual search algorithms to enable home DIY types to identify parts and locate replacements in the giant hardware store. […]

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Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:18 AM

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Topgolf Debuts SIM-based Lounge Concept, With LED Digital Sky

Topgolf has already pretty much reinvented the idea of driving ranges, and now the company has launched a new product that takes on a related golf category, indoor facilities built around simulators. […]

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Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 8:46 AM

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16:9: Watch How Screens Fill A New Florida Grocery In Unique Ways

A new grocery store that opened last month in Naples, FL is interesting in a couple of ways – its food offer and its use of digital. The Seed To Table Market store is owned and was built by a local grower, and the majority of the fresh food is grown, raised and harvested within a short drive of the store. […]

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Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:24 AM

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