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Digital Signage in Retail Environments: The Future of the In-Store Shopping Experience

The retail industry is constantly evolving, and retailers are constantly adapting to stay ahead of the competition. Retail digital signage has become an essential tool for retailers who want to engage their customers and enhance the in-store shopping experience.

Retail digital refers to the use of remotely managed electronic displays, such as LCD or LED screens, to display information or advertisements to in-store customers. These displays are used to showcase product information, sales and promotions, or other messages that are intended to engage, educate and inform customers. Digital signage is an essential tool for retailers because it allows them to quickly and easily update the information displayed, and is far more visually appealing and attention-grabbing than traditional static signs.

Average transaction value is higher in stores with digital signage by29.5%
Digital signage increases average customer browsing time by30%

12 key benefits of using digital signage in retail environments:

Attract and Engage Customers

Attract and Engage Customers

Retail digital signage creates an impactful, visually appealing atmosphere that captivates customers and keeps them engaged during their in-store shopping experience. Dynamic animations, video displays, and eye-catching graphics are just a few examples of how digital signage can be leveraged to attract customers.

Increase Sales

Increase Sales

Retailers use digital signage to promote products, sales, and other special offers, driving impulse purchases and increasing overall sales. For example, digital displays showcasing limited-time promotions, special offers, and new products can entice customers to make a purchase at the point of sale.

Improve Customer Experience

Improve Customer Experience

Retail digital signage provides customers with relevant and up-to-date information about products, such as product descriptions, online reviews, and prices, helping them make informed in-store purchasing decisions. Interactive kiosks and touch screens also provide a personalized shopping experience by allowing customers to view and compare products, place orders, and more.

Enhance Brand Awareness

Enhance Brand Awareness

Retailers use digital signage to showcase their brand, corporate values, and products, building brand recognition and brand loyalty. For instance, digital displays can be used to promote company culture, values, and community involvement, helping customers form a personal connection with the brand.

Save Time and Money

Save Time and Money

Retail digital signage eliminates the need for costly printed signage and traditional marketing materials, saving time and resources while being more environmentally friendly. Digital displays can be updated quickly and easily, enabling retailers to keep their content current and relevant without the need for the costly logistics and personnel involved in updating static signage.

Easy to Update

Easy to Update

The flexibility of digital signage allows for quick and easy updates to the content on displays, ensuring that the information being displayed is always current and relevant. Playlist can be entirely dynamic avoiding repeated content loops and making updating of displays as easy as a simply drag and drop from your desktop. Retailers can make changes to their displays from anywhere, at any time.

Customizable

Customizable

Digital signage is highly customizable, allowing retailers to tailor the content on their displays to fit their specific needs and goals. Create templates corporate branded templates for all stores that can allow only individual regions to be updated by individual locations. For instance, retailers can run different promotions at each location depending on varying inventory levels. Recognize local employee achievements to improve employee moral.

Digital signage includes interactive elements, such as touch screens, QR codes, and augmented reality, providing customers with an immersive shopping experience.

Interactive

Retail digital signage includes interactive elements, such as touch screens, QR codes, and augmented reality, providing customers with an immersive shopping experience. For example, touch screens can be used to showcase products in greater detail, allowing customers to view products from multiple angles and zoom in on specific features while in-store without having to open a box.

Retailers can use digital signage to deliver targeted, relevant advertising to specific customer segments, such as age, gender, or location.

Targeted Advertising

Retailers can use digital signage to deliver targeted, relevant advertising to specific customer segments, such as age, gender, or location. For instance, displays can be set up to show advertisements specific to the time of day, weather conditions, or location of the store. Provide content in varying languages to engage patrons in their preferred language.

Digital signage analytics allow retailers to measure the success of their campaigns, providing valuable insights into customer behavior and engagement.

Measure Success

Digital signage analytics allow retailers to measure the success of their campaigns, providing valuable insights into customer behavior and engagement. Retailers use this data to make informed decisions about future marketing efforts and improve the overall customer experience.

Retailers can easily repurpose social media content, such as user-generated content or brand influencer posts, to showcase on in-store digital signage displays.

Repurpose Social Media Content

Retailers can easily repurpose social media content, such as user-generated content or brand influencer posts, to showcase on in-store digital signage displays. This helps retailers leverage the power of social media and connect with customers on a personal level.

Digital signage is also used to provide entertainment for customers, such as playing music videos, showcasing fashion shows, or displaying live sports events.

Provide Entertainment

Digital signage is also used to provide entertainment for customers, such as playing music videos, showcasing fashion shows, or displaying live sports events. This helps keep customers engaged and entertained while they shop, creating a more enjoyable shopping experience.

Retail Digital Signage Software

Powerful Retail Tool

Digital signage is a powerful tool for retailers to attract, engage, and convert customers. By providing a dynamic, interactive, and personalized shopping experience, digital signage can help retailers stay ahead of the competition and drive growth.

Examples of Digital Signage in Retail Environments:

In store Promotions

In-store Promotions

Digital displays are used to highlight special promotions and sales, helping to drive impulse purchases.

Product Descriptions and Reviews

Product Descriptions and Reviews

Digital displays provide customers with detailed product information, including customer reviews and ratings, helping them make informed purchasing decisions.

Interactive Product Displays

Interactive Product Displays

Retailers use digital displays to create interactive product displays, allowing customers to try out products virtually.

Brand Awareness

Brand Awareness

Retailers use digital displays to showcase their brand, values, and products, helping to build brand recognition and loyalty.

Retail Digital Signage Product Showcase

We'll choose the right screen for your location and environment so that you can deliver your message to the right audience, at the right time, in the right place.
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Engage Customers with Impactful Messaging

Digital displays showcase products and promotions, creating a dynamic and engaging shopping experience for customers.

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Provide Product Information at the Point of Sale

Digital shelf edge displays give customers product information and pricing, helping drive impulse purchases by highlighting promotions, new products, and other relevant information.

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Offer a Personalized, Interactive Shopping Experience

Interactive kiosks provide customers with a personalized, interactive shopping experience, showcasing products, providing product information, and allowing customers to place orders or make purchases.

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Immerse Customers in a Visual Spectacle

Video walls draw customers in and create an immersive shopping experience, showcasing product demonstrations, advertisements, and other engaging content.

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Reach Customers Both Inside and Outside the Store

Double-sided in-window displays reach customers both inside and outside the store, showcasing products, promotions, and other engaging content.

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Help Customers Navigate the Store Efficiently

In-Store wayfinding helps customers navigate the store and find the products they are looking for, providing directions, store maps, and other relevant information through digital signage displays.

Interested in seeing our digital signage hardware in action? Book a live virtual showroom tour with one of our MediaTile experts.

Digital Signage Solutions for Retail

Capture the attention of shoppers with an unparalleled in-store experience. Effective digital signage solutions increase footfall, browsing time, conversion, average transaction value, buyer confidence and repeat buyers. Our MediaTile experts help you create a communication plan with digital signage that engages, educates and empowers your customers before they enter your store and up to the point of purchase.

Engage

  • Attract passing foot traffic with dynamic visual content
  • Display specific ads to different customers using anonymous audience detection
  • Produce user generated content and showcase customers by displaying live social media hashtag feeds

Educate

  • Market promotions and new products to cross sell and upsell
  • Provide additional information about products by catalogue browsing or barcode scanning on an interactive kiosk
  • Push deals and announcements to customer phones as they enter your store using beacons

Empower

  • Allow customers to independently browse and request sizes using interactive kiosks
  • Provide support using 2-way video calling to streamline customer support in large stores or limit contact for social distancing
  • Set up price-checking kiosks that display messages and ads when not in use
We get to know your unique communication needs so that we can build a custom digital signage solution for you. Connect with a MediaTile expert to learn how you can be communicating more effectively.

MediaTile Platform Features for Retail

Our easy-to-use and versatile MediaTile digital signage Content Management Software platform is designed with all the features and integrations you need for a powerful digital signage solution.
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"We found it was very easy to integrate this platform into our existing processes and love how easy it is to add, edit, design, and schedule content."

- Jaimeleigh F, Director of Marketing and Communications

Promote Deals and New Products with Beacons

Use your digital signage to communicate with your audience’s mobile devices via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Send deals to your customers as they enter your retail store, or send alerts to warehouse employees if they are too close to a dangerous location or hazardous materials. Receive anonymous traffic patterns to understand how your audience moves within your store.

Guide Customers through Malls using Wayfinding and Directories

Welcome customers with the comfort of being able to find new and favourite stores, food courts, washrooms and other facilities. You have complete control over your wayfinding and directory information so you can make quick changes if classrooms move or faculty switch offices.

Tap for Payments and Loyalty Points with NFC/RFID

Accept contactless payments, track loyalty program points, provide targeted marketing and more. Enable NFC to your digital signage to provide value to your audience with the tap of their NFC-enabled mobile device.

Curate Customer-Specific Messaging with Audience Analytics

Trigger specific content to display based on audience demographics, such as age or gender. Collect anonymous analytics about the demographic make-up of your customers.

Capture Customer Attention with Kiosks

Allow customers to look up product information, request sizing or check pricing. Display your content on the screens when they are not in use. All of our displays can be modified to interact using gesture, QR code mobile control and touchscreen technology.

Manage Multiple Departments and Store Locations

Display different content to specific departments or screen locations so your customers only receive relevant information.

You're In Good Hands

Choosing MediaTile means you get a digital signage solution that meets all of your communication, technical and budgetary needs.

20+ Years of Experience

MediaTile has been developing digital signage software since 2003, backed by Corum Digital Corporation and a technology lineage dating to 1986. Everything from the development of our platform to the placement of your screens is carefully curated to allow you to communicate more effectively.

Top of the Line Security

The MediaTile digital signage network and platform are supported by the highest level of security. Join the list of government, financial and other highly protected institutions that trust MediaTile to keep their content and communication safe.

Turn-key Service & Support

Beyond conception to installation, MediaTile experts are available for unlimited free technical training and support, from Monday to Friday 9AM to 9PM EST, for extended hours to accommodate our international client base.

Solutions Made Just for You

Our MediaTile digital signage experts ensure the software and hardware meet all your technical requirements and our customer support team is available to help you figure out which financing and payment options work the best for you.

FAQ

Retail Digital Signage Questions

What is retail digital signage?

Retail digital signage uses commercial displays, video walls, interactive kiosks, and shelf edge screens to show promotions, product information, and wayfinding in a store. MediaTile manages every screen from one cloud platform, so content can change in minutes, in one location or in hundreds.

Which displays work best in a retail store?

It depends on the space. Video walls draw attention at the entrance, shelf edge displays carry pricing and promotions at the point of sale, double sided window displays reach shoppers inside and outside, and interactive kiosks let customers browse and find products. We recommend the right screen for each location, at no obligation.

How do I update content across multiple stores?

From the MediaTile cloud platform, in any browser. Schedule promotions by day, hour, or location, push a change to every screen at once, or target a single store.

Can digital signage help increase sales?

Yes. Promotions shown at the moment of decision drive impulse purchases, and screens next to the product give shoppers the information they need to buy. MediaTile analytics show which content performs, so you can do more of what works.

Do you install and support the screens?

Yes. MediaTile provides turn-key service: we specify the hardware, install it, and support it, backed by more than 20 years of experience in digital signage.

Can I see MediaTile in a real retail setting before deciding?

Take the 360 virtual showroom tour, or book a demo and we will show you the platform running your own content.

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