Tulsa, OK-based managed services and cybersecurity solutions provider SageNet appears to be getting seriously interested in the digital signage business, having just hired industry vet IV Dickson as the company’s new Director of Digital Signage. […]
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Rob Gorrie is among the most digitally-savvy and sharp people I know – some of that based on the DNA of a family that’s been doing marketing for more than a century. But it’s also based on a pile of real world experience starting and running digital companies. […]
When I think of pop-up stores, I think apparel start-ups. But in Toronto, Ontario’s giant booze monopoly is running a pop-up store for the holiday season that includes several digital components. […]
El Palacio de Hierro is one of the most prestigious department stores in Mexico. Looking to create an iconic building with characteristics never seen before in Mexico or the Americas, the brand decided to build a project called “The Palace of Palaces,” and digital signage was a key topic on the agenda. […]
Atlanta – Digital Signage Expo (DSE), the world’s largest international trade show and educational conference dedicated to digital displays, interactive technology and digital communications networks, announced today that its Digital Signage Retail Seminar Program at DSE 2018 designed specifically for End Users in the Retail sector will feature an hour-long session titled, “Digital Experiences that Create Conversations in Retail: The Polaris Story. […]
Just last week Manolo Almagro pulled the curtains back on a new company he’s started, under the umbrella of Chris Riegel’s ever-growing STRATACACHE empire. It’s called Q Division, a retail tech consultancy that in many respects is the sum total reflection of 20-plus years that Manny has been around tech, in a crazy variety of ways. […]
This is the Oslo International Airport flagship store of the pharmacy chain Apotek 1, which is part of a big pharmaceutical trader in Europe. It’s probably the first time I’ve seen direct view LED used in a big way at a drug store – in this case a nine metres wide by three tall 3.9mm pitch digital archway. […]
STRATACACHE has quietly recruited, developed and launched a new retail technology consultancy called Q Division, led by one of the better known tech gurus and geeks in this business, Manolo Almagro. ALMAGRO The company has been up for at least a few weeks now, but was formally announced today. […]
Barneys New York has developed a reputation for doing Christmas/Hanukkah season shop window displays that are well outside the holiday norm, and the retailer appears to have really gone for it this year with trippy windows developed by a pair of artist brothers. The 2017 holiday collaboration, Haas for the Holidays, was developed by Simon and Nikolai Haas. […]
A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick airport – uses LCD strips. […]
Wings give lift, enable new views and allow soaring with seemingly no effort. Retailers and brands have long depended on the Three Ps of product, price and promotion to be their wings, but the highly competitive landscape of multi-channel and the empowered consumer are now defining the need for a new set of Three Ps, the productivity of places, processes and people. […]
I’ve seen a few companies at trade shows demo-ing LCD and LED ribbon displays intended for retail shelf edges, but can’t say I’ve seen any out in the real world. So it’s interesting to see this install – no word on whether this is a rollout or a one-shop demo – of a set of chiller fridges in a store equipped with LED shelf signs, marketing Arizona Dairy Farmers product. […]
A Toronto company called ModiFace has unveiled a very snappy, very impressive augmented reality try-on mirror for MAC cosmetic stores that lets women – mostly – virtually try on different types and shades of things like lipstick, without actually using sample product at the counter. […]
Via Linkedin This is the renovated Axiom Telecom store in Dalma Mall in Abu Dhabi – which has a Microsoft Store-like approach to LCD displays not just being screens on walls, but largely being the walls. I like. Axiom is a big retailer and distributor of wireless products in the region. […]
