Today astatine NRF 2023, Cooler Screens announced an enlargement of their in-store video surface offerings. Their exertion has antecedently been utilized to supply video screens for refrigerator doors astatine Walgreens and different retailers. New screens volition present beryllium disposable for store end-caps, checkout coolers, pharmacy screens and elsewhere.
Why we care. New video screens tailored to circumstantial contexts passim a brick-and-mortar determination tin marque for a much engaging in-store experience. They besides supply an accidental for advertisers to nudge shoppers toward their products.
For retailers gathering retired their retail media networks (RMNs) for advertisers, much screens successful cardinal positions passim the store tin nutrient much advertisement inventory. Our look up astatine RMNs indicated that request is increasing for off-site advertizing opportunities portion on-site and in-store advertizing becomes saturated. More in-store inventory improves the acquisition for shoppers and increases the opportunities for on-site activations.
Integrated screens astir the store. The Cooler Screens acquisition connected refrigerator doors shows a video recreation of the products, prices and peculiar offers that shoppers tin find chilling inside.
These aforesaid capabilities volition present beryllium disposable for screens connected non-refrigerated aisles, for coolers astatine checkout lines, and astatine in-store pharmacies and different locations passim the store.
“We are creating an integrated solution crossed the brick-and-mortar environment, fundamentally transforming the in-store experience,” said Arsen Avakian, laminitis and CEO of Cooler Screens, successful a release.
Functionality. The Cooler Screens units person sensors that measurement cardinal buying metrics similar doorway opens and the magnitude of clip a shopper stands successful beforehand of the screen. The strategy is “identity-blind,” truthful it isn’t collecting personally identifiable accusation oregon looking to place idiosyncratic shoppers.
The information astir buying behaviour and video surface show is utilized to show applicable merchandise accusation and promotions connected the screens. By combining the show information into a azygous level passim the store, retailers tin optimize what they amusement connected screens successful antithetic store contexts.
This opens the doorway for marque advertisers and different retail partners to find the close opportunities to get progressive and beforehand connected the screens successful a applicable mode for shoppers.
In summation to retailers similar Walgreens and Kroger, who person installed Cooler Screens technology, marque partners who person utilized the tech see Anheuser-Busch InBev, The Kraft Heinz Company, Edgewell and others.
Cooler Screens present boasts adjacent to 100 cardinal surface viewers per period crossed 10,000 U.S. screens, with views projected to treble successful 2023.
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