Rebecca Minkoff debuts first interactive store

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

The luxury brand is debuting its new store, featuring "connected walls" and high-tech dressing rooms.

Samsung installing 'Entertainment Experience areas' in 500 Best Buy stores

May 16, 2014

Samsung recently announced a new retail initiative at select Best Buy stores, aimed at working with the electronics retailer's goal of providing customers…

Kohl's interactive experience at NRF 2014

Chad Brown with Xomni demonstrates his company's interactive assisted selling solution for Kohl's, at this year's NRF show.

Millennial travelers prefer digital shopping

April 29, 2014

Millennial travelers are willing to spend their money and loyalty points on purchases for ancillary items at self-service kiosk and mobile devices, according…

Retailer launches Oman's largest digital signage network

April 24, 2014

Anzyma, a digital solutions company in the Sultanate of Oman, has deployed the country's largest digital signage network across all 70 Omantel retail outlets…

Time Warner Cable debuts new Flagship Experience Store

Interactive digital signage creates a completely new atmosphere for buying cable services at NYC flagship store.

Village Vending brings back English village stores

April 9, 2014

Village Vending, a company based in the small historic town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, U.K., is providing self-service kiosks with the look and feel of…

ComQi adds interactive engagement features to retail digital signage

March 24, 2014

New high-impact interactive features designed to drive product awareness and boost sales are now being rolled out to retailers and brands through ComQi's…

Infusion Retail Experience Lounge, New York

This year at NRF, Inclusion brought some highlights from its New York Experience Lounge. Although the "Big Show" has come and gone, the Lounge itself is still…

ShopRite grocery chain pilots in-aisle scanning app

February 5, 2014

ShopRite, a grocery chain with stores around Connecticut and New Jersey, has launched a pilot program to test the ShopRite Mobile Scan app, an in-aisle…

Modell's uses interactive tech to welcome Super Bowl fans to Times Square store

January 29, 2014

Tensator, provider of queue management and customer journey solutions, today announced that Modell's CEO Mitchell Modell is welcoming Super Bowl XLVIII fans to…

AVT licenses wireless management system to Marley Coffee Automated Stores

January 27, 2014

AVT Inc., a provider of custom vending machines, automated retailing and self-service kiosks, has announced that it has licensed its patented wireless vending…

Smartrac highlights its contribution to Thinaire's NFC RFID-based solution for Bon-Ton

January 14, 2014

Department store operator Bon-Ton has engaged Thinaire, a provider of RF engagement marketing solutions, to turn shoes on display into mobile marketing…

STRATACACHE unveils Connected Journey to bring retailers closer to the consumer

January 13, 2014

STRATACACHE, a provider of scalable digital signage, content distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, today unveiled a new, interactive…

T1Visions to showcase digital signage, shopping app at NRF BIG Show

January 6, 2014

Interactive technology provider T1Visions will exhibi its latest in-store retail digital signage lineup at this year's NRF BIG Show in New York City, Jan. 1…

What the future holds for retail iPad apps

From low-bandwidth video to eco-friendly communication, the tablet will transform retail even more than it already has.

OnCue Technologies demonstrates interactive POS system

At this year's Customer Engagement Technology World, OnCue Technologies brought a demo unit of an interactive POS system for retail which features audio and…

General Pants Co. goes multichannel with iPad kiosk plan

November 21, 2013

Australian retailer General Pants Co. announced its plans to deploy a fleet of in-store kiosks during a recent launch event in Sydney.

Building an “Insurance Store in a Box” Solution

From an innocuous request-for-info email 2 years ago, Meridian and Direct General Auto Insurance commenced on the path of a self-service solution that would…

Five steps toward developing 'programmable retail'

Retail strategist discusses how to bring certain characteristics of the e-commerce world to the brick-and-mortar store.