Here’s something I’m not sure I’ve seen in this sector before – a digital retail consultancy that built and markets its own Android-driven digital signage solution. The company is Welcom Digital, based far from the big city high streets in little Harrogate, Yorkshire, north of Leeds. […]
We all hear about vast retail and hospitality projects in huge Chinese cities people in the west didn’t know existed. But there is a lot happening in other regional centres – the product of rising economies and huge wealth that’s often in the hands of a few family-run companies. […]
I missed this in the two days I spent wandering the aisles of NRF, which is a shame because I’m intrigued by how it works. It’s billed as the world’s first digital mirror, which is a bit of a reach given eBay and The Big Space both have digital mirror things (admitted doing different stuff) at the show. […]
The big printing hardware firm Lexmark debuted a digital signage product this week at the National Retail Federation show in New York – a digital endcap solution I’d best describe as shrug-inducing. It’s a template program that will generate a jpeg and push it to an LG monitor … and that’s about it. It’s not a clever piece of kit tuned to end of aisle shelving and merchandising. […]
The last time I was at the big National Retail Federation trade show in New York, digital signage was something you saw here and there – in small solo booths or as one of the interesting services wedged into the mega booths of major tech companies. What struck me, wandering the aisles of NRF 2015 on Sunday, was how much that has changed. In-store digital is now a mainstream activity. […]
