A new retail project in Zhengzhou, in the east-central part of China, ups the game on the idea of filling the ceiling of a large area with an LED display. Called the Flying Ribbon, and located in the city’s HuiYi Times Square commercial complex, the project is 1,100 square metres of LED curtain that floats over a large area. […]
GUEST POST: Paul Croubalian, The Customer Experience Group For 132 years, the Eddystone lighthouse has stood on the treacherous Eddystone Rocks in Devon. Its light has shown out over the waters warning mariners and saving them from impending doom. Now, its namesake sets similar sights on saving retailers, restaurants, hotels, et al. […]
I find myself in a lot of shopping malls during my travels, but not because I’m a voracious consumer. It’s rare when I even walk in stores. I’m there out of curiosity – looking at what the landlords and tenants are doing with the physical design and the digital experience. […]
Mobile network operator Vodafone’s Australian wing has gone big on digital signage in its retail stores, switching on a national network that will exceed more than 1,200 screens before the year is out. […]
We’ve seen, for at least the last couple of years, startups and retailers taking different, often interesting stabs at interactive mirrors in retail environments. They’ve tended to be about the dressing room experience, but the athletic wear retailer Lululemon went in a decidedly different direction with a test installation at its New York flagship store. […]
Touchscreen tables are powerful tools for collaboration, interactivity and engagement. Customers in a retail store can use them to learn more about a product or service. An enterprise can use one to allow multiple users to collaborate on the same projects in one physical space – anything from architectural drawings to seismic imaging. […]
This is a nicely targeted and executed interactive application aimed at children and their parents shopping this season at the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Customers entering a Christmas interaction zone at the mall are greeted on a screen by various Christmas characters, such as Santa, a reindeer and a snowman. […]
Ok, I’m back at World HQ after a week in Dubai. Mission accomplished on establishing some business ties way over there, and in going sufficiently far away that I’ve frequent flyer gold status again. If you fly a lot, you’ll understand the value of separate check-ins, early boarding and, in international hubs, showers. […]
I went walkies Tuesday in a couple of Dubai mega-jumbo-Godzilla malls, guided by Nick Giorgetti of 2.0 Concepts, and took a buncha photos of signage installs. Walkway to Dubai Mall with cascading displays. […]
I’ve written in the past about how Apple’s much-imitated minimalist store design has always been, at least to me, curiously light on digital signage. A typical store has screens, but those screens are accents. Very different story at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates, which has a giant, fine pixel pitch LED wall that dominates the rear of the newly opened store. […]
A reminder that I am in Dubai this week, so posts will be sporadic, at best. My quick impressions. Very curious place. […]
Here’s a look inside at the digital signage installed in the giant Nebraska Furniture Mart store that opened in the Dallas-Fort Worth area earlier this year. Premier Mounts and Reflect have pushed out a press release about the installation that sees “14 unique digital experiences for nearly 60 displays throughout the store.” Sounds like a lot, right? […]
Canadian retailer Sport Chek, which sells guess what, has opened a pair of tech-filled flagship stores in Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Square One Shopping Centre, two of the largest and busiest malls in Canada. They are about 25 minutes, to three days, away from each other, depending on greater Toronto traffic. […]
Via TechCrunch … A San Francisco-based, VC-funded startup called Oak Labs is running a trial on a slick virtual mirror in the dressing room of the Ralph Lauren Polo NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. […]
Another set of companies has entered the competition to win the eyeballs, hearts and budgets of grocers, convenience store operators and consumer brands with connected, transparent LCD displays embedded in cooler and freezer doors. […]
