It’s not just Santa Claus who’s coming to town this Christmas. His extra helper is called digital-POS. It’s also making a list and checking it twice, and checking whether your smartphone is sleeping or awake. […]
Amazon has opened what amounts to a neighborhood grocery near its Seattle headquarters that totally eliminates checkouts and cash registers, allowing people to walk in, grab what they want, and leave – the purchases all tracked through shopper smartphones and the cloud. The 1,800 sq. ft.Amazon Go store is now open as a test for staffers but will open to the public early in the new year. […]
Via Retail Design Blog Here’s some shots, but not much digital signage detail, about a North Face flagship store that opened earlier this year in the very high rent district of Palo Alto, California, at the shopping center in the shadows of Stanford University. The images come from Retail Design Blog, and it details a store design put together by a firm called Green Room. […]
HOUSTON, Dec. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ –– Available today from Voev Inc., OptiSigns offers restaurants, car dealerships, medical practices, financial centers, retail stores, showrooms, and many other businesses a quick and easy way to manage digital in-store signage and displays. […]
Here’s a slightly different take on shopping mall wayfinding: smaller screens set at angles, instead of the jumbo vertical screens you mostly see in malls these days. This is at the Mall of America in Minneapolis – which I believe remains the largest shopping mall in the U.S. – and there are six of these, in total, which tells me this is a test. […]
A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they really should buy and put under the tree for loved ones. The idea is that the biometrics tech – touted among other things as capable of measuring emotional responses – will help settle on choices. […]
This week’s Installation of the Week is an Ooo Experience. What is Ooo, you may ask? Well, it has nothing to do with Out-of-Home (OOH) or Digital-Out-of-Home (DOOH) or anything like that. […]
Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. […]
Digital menu boards are now very common in the quick service restaurant sector, but far less so at the many other kinds of order counters out there – like at butcher shops. […]
Hat Tip to @digitaloohnews for spotting this … Toyota’s European auto division has rolled out a ChromeOS-based digital signage solution to some 3,000 of its showrooms, and the company says it plans to have as many as 10,000 screens running off Chromeboxes, across 3,600 dealers. […]
A Taiwan-based electronics firm has started shipping a $189 smart mirror aimed at the consumer market that looks like the sort of thing some mid-tier retailers would like to have at their cosmetic counters. […]
Via The Drum The British luxury retailer Harrods has installed a series of large, fine pitch LED video installations that greet shoppers at every level in the store’s iconic six-storey Grand Entrance hall. There are 12 LED screens in various configurations at points in the six floors of the department store’s escalator atrium. […]
Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump an tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. […]
Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve I spent 20 recently minutes trying to get out of a car park. With a row of cars behind me queued up hooting. Not the most fun I’ve had lately, and it was the second day in a row it happened. […]
DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Nov 22, 2016) – RMG Networks Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: RMGN), or RMG, a leading provider in technology-driven visual communications announces the latest advancements in digital retail with the launch of Etisalat’s 100th Digital Life store opening — the first and largest standalone store in the outlet chain that is open 24/7. […]
