NRF 2018 – Display Daily

ESLs from Opticon and JDI at NRF

by Matthew Brennesholtz

In my visit to NRF’s Big Show reported in last week’s LDM/MDM, I missed (at least) one Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) vendor on the NRF show floor, Opticon. Like three of the ESL vendors …

NRF: Trends going forward

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Amazon Books has opened two retail locations in New York. (Credit: Retail Design Institute) While at the NRF’s Big Show, I focused on the vendors, not the talks, in part because the talks were …

Samsung’s 55” mirror display put a frame around Meko’s Matt Brennesholtz while he took a selfie. (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) In addition to its mobile platforms, discussed elsewhere in this issue, Samsung also had one …

NRF: Mobile Computing for Retail

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Panasonic Toughbook FZ-G1 in a mobile POS cradle with a credit card reader. (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) Panasonic was at NRF showing its Toughbook mobile computers and tablets. Jeffery Pinc, the Panasonic rep I talked …

NRF: Point of Sale Terminals

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Toshiba’s New TCx 800 POS Terminal, partially disassembled and with some accessories. (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) Toshiba introduced its new TCx 800 all-in-one modular point-of-sale (POS) solution at NRF. This unit will be available later …

NRF: Electronic Shelf Edge Labels

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Two 2” and one 4” (at bottom) Edge displays at the NRF (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) Edge R&D holdings, LLC was showing an interesting variation on electronic shelf edge labels (ESLs) (previously reported by us …

NRF: Analytics, Big Data and Image Processing

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Virtually every exhibitor at the NRF Big Show was showing at least some products that could have been reported under this headline. If I had to choose a single trend from the NRF, I …

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NRF: The Innovation Lab & Startup Pavilion II: Displays

by Matthew Brennesholtz

This section of the IL and Startup Pavilion story will deal with customer-oriented display technologies. This, of course, is only a subset of all customer-oriented display technologies at NRF. Others, presented by more established …

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NRF: The Innovation Lab & Startup Pavilion I: Robots

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Innovation Lab (IL) was on the top level of the Javits convention center and was dedicated to startups and other small companies with breakthrough technologies for retail. That level has huge windows on …

NRF: Overview of The Big Show

by Matthew Brennesholtz

When a consumer walks into a store, he sees shelves with groceries, racks with clothes, a line of televisions, etc. The exhibitors at the NRF’s Big Show, the annual trade show for retail technology …

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The State of US Retail – is it Dead, Yet?

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Is retail dead? Not according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), the voice of retail in general and brick-and-mortar stores in particular. Reportedly, the NRF is the world’s largest retail trade association, representing discount …

Mundane Displays at the NRF

by Matthew Brennesholtz

There are a lot of red-hot new display technologies out there grabbing the press and consumer interest. 4K, 8K, high dynamic range, wide color gamut, high frame rate, retinal displays, light field displays, VR, …

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