Electronic Shelf Label

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The Advantage of Electronic Shelf Label

In our modern world, technology has arisen in which businesses transform into the trends of getting consumer demands. As top leading brands find their way to the competition in promoting their business, operating electronic shelf labels (ESLs) are becoming an advantage in industrial and retail establishments. This wireless solution provides more features than just product information. Your company can benefit from an electronic shelf label in numerous advantages, which range from dynamic pricing to automated inventory management. 

First and foremost, an electronic shelf label will guarantee trustworthy and correct pricing. The prevalence and expense of inaccuracies with paper price tags is one issue. Shelf crawl, outdated prices, missing tags, and other factors can all contribute to this. These mistakes could result in dissatisfied clients who believe you are overcharging them in comparison to the price that is displayed on the shelf. By assuring price consistency in your retail store, electronic labels can solve these problems once you start utilizing them. 

In addition, channel synchronization is a significant advantage that comes with using electronic shelf labels. The price on your store shelf, and in other locations will all be the same thanks to an electronic labeling system. The experience of your customers will be linked by the synchronization of your online and offline channels. 

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Use Electronic Shelf Labels as Digital Signage

When finding an alternative to paper labels, you might consider using an electronic shelf label as digital signage. Digital signage offers a wide range of display features that are more engaging to consumers in the retail industry.  

Implementing digital signage is cost-efficient in your business that you don't have to spend on thousands of paper labels to change the pricing of products in your store. Its advanced technology also ensures that quick updates on price are real.

Digital signage will appear elegant and contemporary because of its outstanding design, which is simple and sleek. In addition to extending an ESL's capabilities and giving greater life to product details, its e-ink has legible fonts and colors to greet approaching customers. The displays use less power to run and have compact, long-lasting batteries that provide optimal performance for up to five years. 

Unified Content Management software that is practical. The process of seeing and changing price information is made more convenient by your staff's ability to produce, deploy, and schedule content across shelves from any location.

Undoubtedly, your store sells a variety of items that come with a wealth of information. All of this data, from expiration dates to nutritional details, can be seen on Newton's seven pages. Anyone can navigate the different pages by using interactive buttons to gain additional information about your products.

Your store will become more responsive and dedicated to providing excellent customer service, setting it apart from other retail establishments and modernizing it.

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The Benefit of Electronic Shelf System in Retail

Old traditional paper labels have other alternatives, The electronic shelf label (ESL) work is an example of an advanced system that automatically updates pricing and other information about products on the retail market.

Like the usual paper label, electronic shelf tags are attached to the edge shelves so that customers can easily find the price of the product they looking for, but on a digital approach. The electronic shelf system updates the central server and changes the price automatically. Electronic shelf labels essentially made retail management easier in that employees can monitor and update product information, locate products, and do so much more data from a single place.

For convenience, large retailers used an electronic shelf system for good customer service. Electronic shelf label helps retail employees minimize their workload instead of manually replacing paper tags, the central control server does its job of changing the price of a product and updating the information.

In a retailer that has several outlets, electronic shelf label agility to display accurate price information through a wireless connection is beneficial and it also avoids human error in constant changing of the price of products.

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Creating an Interactive Sports Store with Newton Touch

Match the energy of sports enthusiasts shopping in your sports store with Newton Touch’s immersive and interactive touchscreen features.

Sports stores are filled with sports gear, equipment, and accessories — as well as posters depicting images of people in action like a runner going for an extra mile or a basketball player making a dunk. These images are there because sports stores need to evoke energy and create an atmosphere of activity for their target customers.

But sports stores can do more by actually bringing movement, energy, and activity in the form of a digital label: Newton Touch. Newton Touch is one of SOLUM’s innovative electronic shelf label designs built to increase customer engagement. With Newton Touch’s features to display animated graphics and videos, sports stores can convey the active lifestyle feeling that they want their stores to convey.

Give shoppers an immersive experience

Newton Touch’s solution uses in-plane switching (IPS) technology, supports up to 16.7 million colors, and is equipped with an anti-glare coating to minimize reflection. IPS stands for in-plane switching, a type of LED (a form of LCD) display panel technology. IPS panels are characterized as having the best color and viewing angles among the other main types of display panels.

These features mean that Newton Touch panels display has a resolution high enough to look realistic, providing an immersive experience for shoppers. The colors and lines are so defined, emphasizing even the littlest details.

Utilize the touchscreen features

Unlike traditional paper shelf labels and the competitors’ static digital signages, Newton Touch has an interactive display solution that allows your customers to touch, swipe, and tap the panels.

This touchscreen feature not only entertains shoppers but also helps them make informed decisions before buying. Customers can tap the display panel to view a sports gear’s product specifications or swipe the screen to see other colors available. This way, customers can know which sports gear is the best one for them before making a purchase.

Liven up your shelves through various media

Newton Touch has technology that allows users to display any combination of text, videos, images, product coupons with QR codes, digital brochures, interactive menus, and more.

These abilities bring a sports store’s shelves to life, matching the active and always-on-the-move lifestyle of its usual customers such as athletes, hikers, bikers, surfers, swimmers, mountain climbers, and even fitness enthusiasts.

Capture the attention of possible customers by bringing life to your sports store’s shelves with Newton Touch digital label’s advanced technology.

Visit www.solumesl.com to know more about how Newton Touch can benefit your sports stores.

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What is the Best ESL System for Retail?

Newton electronic shelf labels (ESL) combined with SOLUM’s Aims Solution is the best ESL system for retail businesses.

There is no denying the bevy of benefits that electronic shelf labels (ESLs) provide to retailers. Aside from elevating the overall look of physical stores, ESLs also provide a great deal of efficiency by automating many store operations. Facets such as inventory management, employee scheduling, customer service, and payment options are just some of the things that electronic shelf labels improve.

However, choosing your ESLs is one thing, the system is another thing. Some ESL manufacturers simply offer the digital tags with no accompanying software. This may be because their customers already have their own digital infrastructure. But if your retail business is starting from scratch, it is good to consider what system you’d like to back your ESLs. In this case, it might help to choose ESLs that already have a versatile system, much like the one from SOLUM.

Upgrade Your Workflows With Aims

SOLUM is one of the world’s leading distributors of electronic shelf labels. Our ESL products are continually improving through non-stop innovation and testing, which is what keeps us ahead of our competitors. Newton is our latest range of ESLs to hit the market and is exclusively powered by our Advanced Information Management System or Aims server. We designed this system to make it easy for retailers to manage their ESLs, product information, inventory, users, and data from a singular dashboard.

There are currently three versions of Aims available, as SaaS, a site, and as cloud software. You are free to choose which one is best for your business depending on your needs. Aims designed to support reliable automated ESL functionality while remaining cost-effective and scalable. Moreover, it is also easy to implement and it updates quickly so your retail operations are as smooth and as efficient as possible.

A Seamless User Experience

At SOLUM, we purposely developed Aims to make digitizing one’s retail operations as effortless as possible. We understand that not every client we have will be familiar with ESL technology, and we do not want to provide complicated digital solutions that only IT staff can implement. With that said, Aims in all its forms is purposely easy to implement. You simply have to purchase the subscription or software and deploy it almost immediately. No need to install or reconfigure your current infrastructure. Aims can easily be incorporated into new and existing systems.

Real-Time Automatic Updates

Much like any mobile application, Aims takes care of any updating and upgrading of software for you. You do not have to manually download anything to enable these changes to ensure you are always using the latest version of our ESL system. Additionally, any updates that you make to the display information on your ESLs can be done from a central dashboard thanks to Aims. No need to wait for hours to see changes reflected on your digital signage. Aims’ multi-tenant architecture enables you to update the information of thousands of electronic shelf labels in minutes.

Uninterrupted and Secure Connections

Another advantage to Aims is that it’s extremely dependable. Disconnections between ESL and server rarely occur. Moreover, the software automatically checks and balances itself for your convenience. Aims is constructed to have high availability and load balancing features to ensure that your automated retail workflows are uninterrupted and efficient. All upgrades are automatically deployed and checks for the ESL system performance and history are continuous as well.

To learn more about our digital solutions, visit www.solumesl.com.

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Why SOLUM is the Ideal ESL Partner

SOLUM is the leader in the Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) field, having pioneered e-paper, e-ink, and LED blinking. But there are more reasons why you should choose us as your ESL partner.

#1 We have the experience

As a Samsung spin-off company, SOLUM’s technical excellence combined with proven product quality enables us to be the leading ESL solutions provider. Ever since we started as Samsung Electro-Mechanics in 1973, we successfully built our ESL business with our manufacturing facilities, which was made possible by our Core IC design.

#2 We have the facilities

SOLUM is the only ESL solutions provider with its own manufacturing facilities, enabling us to speed up our development time, maintain a high standard of quality control, optimize the supply chain system, and maximize cost competitiveness.

#3 We are innovative

We are known for developing customized solutions for unique retailer needs. Historically, we’ve been able to provide specialty products such as Item Labels, LED Blinking Labels, Button Labels, and various by-request promotion solutions.

#4 We make you competitive

There’s no need to allot unnecessary time and energy on updating paper labels. Our ESL system offers the industry’s fastest update speed at a 2mbps data rate. You’ll be able to better allocate your resources on more important tasks and improve customer service.

#5 We are trustworthy

Since 2007, SOLUM has worked with leading brands across the globe, providing more than 86 million tags to over 8,000 stores in 35+ countries. Until now, we continue to collaborate with many of our clients and put them at the center of our business decisions.

If you’d like to explore the idea of partnering with us to digitize your business operation, do not hesitate to visit www.solumesl.com.

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What is Digital Signage in Retail?

Using digital signage in stores will be a game-changer for the whole retail industry and will bring visual merchandising to the next level.

Technology has truly taken over the retail industry and is here to stay. Businesses of all sizes in the retail space have either started or are already in digitization. It can something as simple as opening an online store or it can be as complex as workflow automation. Even the look of physical stores is getting the futuristic treatment with the gradual replacement of static store signs and labels with digital signage.

Signage and Visual Merchandising

Visual merchandising is an essential part of getting customers’ attention and compelling them to enter the store and take a look. Retailers use signs to achieve that. As more people are shopping online, there is a need for businesses to be more eye-catching and appealing to customers. It is simply not enough to go with traditional, static signage that doesn’t change. On the other hand, digital signage is more dynamic and can display moving graphics, which can help attract more customers.

Moreover, digital signage can also help retailers create or re-establish their brand identity as time goes on. Showcasing the right graphics can help enhance customer recall because some elements from the signage will stick to them and help them better remember a brand name or store.

Why Digital Signage Is Important in Retail

Brick-and-mortar stores can make use of digital signage in a number of ways. After all, using signage is essential in conveying messages to customers without having to say anything. However, static signs are no longer as effective as they used to be. Digital signage can display more information to customers via motion graphics or even in a slide show format. In today’s retail environment, people want to learn as much as possible about a product or service before they buy something.

Aside from being able to communicate more with shoppers, digital signage is also extremely versatile. For retailers, there are a number of things that can be replaced with digital signage, including shelf labels, in-store displays, and even store posters. Doing so can help improve different operations at the store and can also help boost sales.

Why Electronic Shelf Labels Work Great As Digital Signage

Perhaps one of the most popular options out there for digital signage is the electronic shelf label or ESL. Though these digital labels are usually used to replace paper and plastic price tags, they can be used for other purposes. Retailers can get larger electronic shelf labels to display colorful and interactive graphics on the shelf that customers can watch to learn more about a product. On the employee side, digital signage can also be used to help organize inventory and monitor stock levels.

This is because electronic shelf labels are connected to a centralized server that employees can easily access to do a number of tasks. This includes locating products in-store because the ESL gives items a marker and allows staff to find them through digital maps. Moreover, updates on digital signage are a breeze. A new page can simply be uploaded via the server and can be reflected across several hundred ESLs in minutes, this gives employees more time for customer service and other important tasks.

For more information about our digital solutions, visit www.solumesl.com.

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Benefits of Electronic Shelf Label’s Location Based-Service to Retail Management

SOLUM’s latest electronic shelf label lineup is now backed up by the Newton system that offers upgraded features to help you manage your retail store.

Managing your store is crucial to reaching success. You must achieve sales goals, ensure that you provide the best customer service, oversee daily activities, and help employees reach their full potential.

One of the most efficient tools to keep your retail store intact is by taking advantage of electronic shelf labels. Many think that ESL only replaces paper labels for its modern way of showing the price. Still, it can do a lot more — it elevates your store’s capabilities by automating your operations.

SOLUM Electronic Shelf Labels

SOLUM’s latest ESL lineup is now backed up by the Newton system which offers upgraded features that ordinary ESL systems can’t provide.

Newton has a location-based service feature that enhances retail management. It uses real-time geo-data through a mobile device and RF-enabled tags to provide location-based information, allowing entity (products or people) tracking in retail stores such as hypermarkets, groceries, manufacturing plants, and industrial facilities.

Here are four benefits of Newton’s location-based service feature to retail management.

Asset Location Management

Moving

Moving assets are the equipment that workers can move from any point of the facility at any time of the day, such as shopping carts, trolleys, scales, PCs, and machines.

Attaching Newton tags enables you to manage the current location and carry in and out of mobile assets. For trolleys, it’s possible to plan effective routes to optimize transportation time.

Fixed

Fixed assets are stationary equipment in their location like the shelves or the large equipment used for manufacturing the goods.

Attaching Newton tags lets you know the location of fixed assets such as fire extinguishers and first aid kits so that you can find them immediately in case of an emergency.

Location-based Retail Analysis

Store geography has a significant influence on customer behavior. Each aspect of a store’s layout is designed to convince consumers to make a purchase. Using Newton, you can promote your products by changing their position to the bestselling place — very helpful when conducting sales promotions.

Low Battery Location Notification

Newton shows the location of tags that are almost out of batteries, eliminating the need to check the labels one by one and allowing management to find and replace the label before the battery is exhausted.

Failure Tag Location Notification

When the operation fails, or the update is not reflected due to time out, the tag attached can be located on the map through Aims, so the staff can check it.

With Newton, your business never loses track. We help you find ways to make your operations more profitable and manageable.

For more information on Newton, visit our website at www.solumesl.com.

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Display Applications of Electronic Shelf Labels

ESL uses interactive graphics to pass on information to customers or staff

You probably know that an electronic shelf label can update a product’s price and show it in real-time — it’s the magic of dynamic pricing that makes it enticing for many businesses. Furthermore, it uses interactive graphics to pass on information to customers or staff. Unlike regular paper labels, ESL allows for a wide viewing angle and low power requirements.

It sounds so convenient and cost-efficient, but the list of benefits doesn’t stop there. Aside from real-time updates, ESL has more to showcase.

SOLUM has constantly been developing new solutions, making several improvements in quality, and adding additional features to the ESL, which leads us to the most innovative ESL to date: The Newton!

How is Newton Different?

Newton can let anyone access information easier and faster than ever before. It has a 7-page capability and other features like NFC, LED, and interactive buttons, all of which serve to provide you with more versatility. In so doing, we fulfill our promise of unlimited possibilities.

Here are seven display applications that the all-new Newton can offer to your business.

Production Status Display

Business Type: Brewery

Recommended Tag Size: 11.6"

Application: Mark wine, beer, cheese’s production dates, materials, environment (temperature and humidity), progress, and inspection date. Comprehensive system management is made possible.

Delivery Information Notation

Business Type: Convenience Stores

Recommended Tag Size: 2.7"

Application: Display order number and delivery store information on a tray to be delivered from distribution centers to stores. It creates a system, which will help prevent accidents and mistakes in delivery.

Menu Description

Business Type: Restaurant

Recommended Tag Size: 7.5"

Application: Real-time menu updates & QR codes in restaurants enable customers to participate in events.

Art Description

Business Type: Museum

Recommended Tag Size: 7.5"

Application:

Deliver voice and customer-required additional information by using QR codes to display descriptions in museums and galleries. This type of convenience means that you don’t have to update every time an exhibition is changed.

Inventory Display by Size

Business Type: Shoe Stores

Recommended Tag Size: 1.6"

Application:

Customers can check the stock of shoes or clothes and ask the store staff for the product, increasing staff efficiency and customer satisfaction through active information acquisition.

QR Code Sharing

Business Type: Fashion Store

Recommended Tag Size: 1.6"

Application: If a product is not in stock, customers can connect to the store’s online site via a QR code on display, expanding your sales opportunities even if items run out in-store.

Materials Display

Business Type: Bakery and Wine Shops

Recommended Tag Size: 4.3"

Application: Specify detailed material information (ex: nutrition, ingredients, allergens) of the product or provide additional information to help it sell (ex: sugar content of wine).

Expiration Date Sharing

Business Type: Health care

Recommended Size Tag: 2.9"

Application: Display expiration dates to avoid the risk of selling expired products.

Newton is supported by a robust data management server, enabling businesses to manage data comprehensively and update ESL content automatically. It also comes in various sizes and formats, which gives your business the flexibility to use them in a wide variety of ways. And since ESLs run on batteries, you can pretty much place them anywhere in your facility, unlike wired solutions.

For more information on Newton, visit our website at www.solumesl.com.

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The Benefits of Digital Labels to Schools

A school’s facilities have a profound impact on teacher and student outcomes. They affect a teacher’s recruitment, retention, commitment, effort, and student’s health, behavior, engagement, learning, and achievement.

If your school is not equipped with advanced technology, it’s time to make a change.

SOLUM Electronic Shelf Labels are empowered by the all-new Newton system that will improve the overall quality of education your school provides if integrated with your school’s facilities.

Here are five benefits that digital labels provide to schools.

NFC Tapping

Using Newton’s NFC Tapping:

Students can replace a meal ticket or restaurant card in the cafeteria and load it up with a set amount in advance

Students can use access cards in the dormitory and classrooms by tapping on a label attached to each room

Teachers can also record student attendance when they tap their student ID on the label attached to each classroom

Location-based Service

By further taking advantage of Newton’s NFC combined with its LBS capability, the teachers can track a child who moves from one place to another. The child’s new position is recorded on the server, so the parents and teachers can check the child’s location, allowing the school to identify if the child is out of range immediately and contact the guardian or emergency services.

Bluetooth

Newton’s Bluetooth feature lets students use tags like a notepad by writing the content on their mobile devices and updating them to the tags via an app. Students can also attach the label to their personal belongings like luggage or wallets. The object becomes traceable via the Bluetooth location capability. They may set the alarm when the items go out of previously-assigned bounds (ex.: 10m away from your position).

LED Indication

When students want to know a book’s exact location, they can search for the book on the library’s website, and the corresponding shelf LED will blink.

Information-sharing

Newton can share information in a shared platform by streamlining reservation processes, allowing the sharing of reservations in conference rooms, offices, and locker rooms, and providing convenience to the students and the school’s faculty and staff.

With Newton, ensure your school’s provided learning experience will be on a whole new different level!

For more information about SOLUM’s shelf labeling system, visit us at www.solumesl.com.

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The Benefits of Automating Inventory

Whether your business is in retail or industrial, you can’t deny that inventory management plays a significant role in keeping your overall operations free from disruptions.

It provides insights for you to see which products are moving and which ones are sitting on the shelf for too long, so you can track, forecast, and replenish your inventory on time.

Check out this list of the advantages your business can experience once you go for inventory automation.

Information is updated in Real-time

Inventory data in a traditional warehouse is usually outdated. When the worker manually enters the product information into the tracking system, the numbers will have already been inaccurate. But automating your inventory will keep the system updated in real-time. Once the worker picks a product, the information will be automatically sent to the warehouse management system (WMS).

Time Saved is Money Saved

In retail, brand owners typically update the record book manually, which means each sales receipt must be reconciled with every piece of physical inventory. It’s oh so dull and time-consuming!

But by automating your inventory, the record is updated whenever there is a new sale. Plus, if your shelves need restocking, the system will send notifications and provide options if you want to refill or end the product.

Automated inventory management saves hours from doing manual entry and makes more time for customer service.

Efficiency in Warehouse is Improved

Inventory automation reduces clerical errors as it won’t require paper works.

Instead, you will get accurate operating costs, track sales costs, and identify the best and worst-performing products.

Using a modern WMS lets managers measure the performance of workers by:

Showing the average time a warehouse worker picks orders

Showing which workers are most efficient and which ones need extra training

Identifying which products are most sold and which ones barely move

Sales Figures are Made Simple

It’s a challenge for some people to understand sales statistics and changeable demands. Good thing, the automated inventory system’s software is capable of making the details simple, deriving estimations from sales and purchases.

Inventory is Synchronized

For retailers who also sell on other platforms, an automated inventory system updates your inventory across all channels. There’s no need to log in on each platform to update the stock — the product information can be linked to various marketplaces. It enables the store manager to update the inventory seamlessly and increases the overall productivity of business operations.

Automate Your Inventory

Now that you are aware of automated inventory’s benefits making it happen is not as complicated as you might think.

SOLUM’s electronic shelf labels provide all that you need to automate your inventory.

Through our digital labels, you can optimize your inventory as quickly as possible.

It’s that simple.

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How Can Electronic Shelf Labels Simplify Manual Processes?

To keep things cost-effective and streamlined, many retailers have begun to gradually transition to digital processes.

In this day and age, digital solutions are becoming more efficient than manual methods. This change can clearly be seen in both private and public sectors across the globe, including the retail industry. To keep things cost-effective and streamlined, many retailers have begun to gradually transition to digital processes.

Omnichannel Synchronicity

In the digital age, customers now have more than one way to shop. Aside from having physical stores, many retailers also have online stores that customers can also purchase from. However, managing multiple shopping channels can be difficult to do manually. It may be too much for one person to do and the data may be less than accurate as well. Installing ESLs can help retailers keep track of their store channels because all the information is logged and updated for them. This forms something called an omnichannel, where every shopping method converges into one place.

So whether stock levels are low on the online store or a new shipment has arrived at one of their physical stores, this data will be transmitted to the system by the ESLs. That way, any information about what’s happening across a retailer’s shopping network can be accessed conveniently in one place.

More Efficient Customer Service

The reality is, that not every shopper in a physical store wants or needs assistance from the staff. How retail managers can improve customers’ experience while optimizing their workforce through the use of ESLs. Through the display screen, customers can learn more about the product from the shelf edge, they just need to read what’s on it. Moreover, ESLs also have NFC capabilities, which enable mobile payments at the retail store.

Should customers want assistance, they can tap the screen or press a button on the ESL to alert one of the staff to assist them. This way, staff can focus on important tasks at the moment while providing stellar customer service.

Better Inventory Management

Traditionally, the task of inventory management usually goes to one person or a group of people. Their main job involves manually counting each item on the sales floor and stockroom. The information is then written on a logbook or recorded on a laptop and must be updated each time there are changes in inventory. However, continuing to go about tasks this way without the use of digital solutions is steadily becoming inefficient.

Using electronic shelf labels can help immensely because it can keep track of stock levels, record the data, and automatically update the records when changes are made. While employees may still need to do some counting and basic arithmetic, they can leave the tracking to the electronic shelf label. They can easily input the information on the ESL and keep an eye on the numbers on the system.

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How Does an Electronic Shelf System Work?

An electronic shelf system work by displaying product pricing and other information on shelves.

More than 10 years ago, SOLUM brought up innovations in ESL technology by introducing the first e-paper-based ESL to the market. In 2020, we launched Newton, the most innovative ESL in the last decade. Newton is the right product to investigate new use cases in promotion, operation, and customer interaction, powered by the extended battery life and new features (real-time speed, LEDs, buttons, and location-based service).

With Newton, there’s a solution for every retail sector. SOLUM offers a wide range of uses for electronic shelf labels.

Consumer Electronics

Merchants in this sector face especially big competition from online dealers and need to react quickly to changes in price. Customers, for their part, can use ESLs to get more information or product evaluations or watch product videos.

Food and Beverages

Here, ESLs significantly increase efficiency because staff no longer need to spend hours printing out and swapping hundreds or even thousands of price tags. Specials and discounts can be quickly offered with minimal effort. Flexible price adjustments can also help sell off unsold perishable goods that would otherwise just be disposed of at the end of the day when they’ve lost freshness.

DIY and Hardware

Stores that sell building materials and hardware are typically frequented by the same patrons. With ESLs, displaying tiered pricing (aka showing customers how much discount they’re getting if they sign up for a membership) is so much easier. The ESL’s NFC capability, which customers can access by hovering their phones over QR codes on the electronic labels, can be used to help direct them to your store’s membership sign-up sheet. In addition, NFC technology provides customers with a wealth of product information at their fingertips.

Convenience Stores

Many customers appreciate being able to quickly purchase snacks, beverages, and other items at any time for immediate consumption. This is part of the appeal that convenience stores have. If they can pay for them right at the shelf, they no longer have to spend time waiting in line at the register. Thus, their shopping experience is elevated to a new level. Thanks to price automation and mobile self-checkout, this is also more beneficial for stores with fewer employees.

Clothing

In the clothing sector, fashion tags are replacing RFID tags as the preferred means of thwarting shoplifters. They also allow customers to conveniently view other appropriate products with a selected item or previous purchases. Choosing a different size or color is also possible without hardly searching for it in the store.

Which kind of store are you running? Let us know, and our ESL experts will help you learn the right breed of Newton ESL that will fit your business.

For you to know more about our Newton lineup of ESL solutions, visit www.solumesl.com.

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7 Businesses that can Benefit from ESL's Location-based Services

There are many types of businesses from different industries that can benefit from electronic shelf labels location-based services.

SOLUM’s electronic shelf labels (ESL) offer location-based services (LBS) and geo-data technology that allows managers and staff to track the locations of shelves installed with ESL. Such features could be a big advantage for various businesses from different industries from the manufacturing industry to the retail industry and even the healthcare industry.

1. Warehouses & Distribution Centers

Warehouses and distribution centers of logistics and freight forwarding companies have very large facilities filled with mazes of steel shelves that can make the staff get lost. Newton ESL LBS can point the staff in the right direction of the shelf where the package or item they are looking for is stored.

2. Hardware Store

Hardware stores cater to customers that often need assistance from the staff from building tool inquiries to lifting heavy materials. With Newton’s programmable buttons, the customers can push the labels’ buttons to alert any nearby staff and its geo-location features can tell the staff the aisle location of the label that sent out the alarm. This way, the shoppers get the assistance they need as fast as possible.

3. Supermarkets & Hypermarkets

Ensuring that perishable goods are sold before they expire is essential in every operation of supermarkets, hypermarkets, or groceries. Newton’s location-based services combined with its shelf life management feature can help staff locate shelves that have products that are nearly expired or already expired.

4. Furniture Store

Big furniture stores with large display areas and large stockrooms can benefit from LBS in two ways. They can help the salespersons with locating the customer needing assistance in the display area and they can help the inventory staff in navigating the stockroom.

5. Hospitals

If LBS can help shops be more customer-oriented, it can help hospitals be more patient-oriented. Hospitals can integrate this feature with their existing system and have a bird’s eye view of the status and locations of all the rooms installed with Newton ESL.

Above is an excerpt from SOLUM’s video of how Macy’s (US’s biggest department store) is able to utilize the ESL’s location-based services. This retail practice can be useful to hospitals to improve their operations.

6. Hotels

Hotel services can be improved when suites and conference room doors are installed with Newton’s LBS-enabled digital labels. The programmable buttons can be customized to contact the concierge without having to use the hotel room phone, providing direct services in case of emergencies.

7. Factories & Manufacturing Facilities

Using Newton’s LBS feature means your staff will be able to plan their route across your factory or manufacturing facility ahead of time, allowing them to maximize their movement, resulting in even greater productivity.

Is your business not mentioned above?

Contact us so we can discuss how Newton ESL’s location-based services can help you trade. 

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How Do Clothing Retailers Use Electronic Shelf Labels?

Since the accommodating and interactive environment that customers experience cannot be replicated online, managers of clothing stores need to ensure that shopping in a physical and online store is pleasant. One way they can do this is to adapt the use of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) in their physical stores.

To Improve Their Store Operations

Upgrading regular paper labels with ESL system can help improve and streamline a number of clothing store operations to keep things running smoothly. Price changes, promotions, and stock levels are updated in real-time with electronic shelf labels, which makes it easier to maximize the space of the physical store. Employees can easily pinpoint when to restock different items and also allocate an area in the store for new releases.

To Make Price Management Across Channels Easier

As more clothing stores are incorporating online shops into their business model, this often poses a problem when it comes to transparency in prices. Using electronic shelf labels helps ensure that prices across the store omnichannel remain consistent, especially during sales and other promotional activities. ESLs connect the products on the shelves to the store’s main database, so any changes will automatically show up across the store’s channels.

To Increase Their Overall Sales and Productivity

Using electronic shelf labels ensures that clothing stores spend less time and money manually updating prices. The e-ink can simply be changed with the press of a button and preparing for different campaigns is more efficient. Moreover, many electronic shelf labels have NFC capabilities, which enables mobile payments. Customers who prefer to use cashless payments make it a point to remember what stores accept them, which can encourage them to return to the store for future purchases.

To Create a Customer Service Experience that Feels Authentic and Interactive

When price management becomes less time-consuming, many clothing store employees can redirect their efforts toward customer service instead. In an age where online stores are the quicker and more convenient way to shop, providing a pleasant shopping experience is a competitive edge. When staff members can spend more time interacting with customers and helping them with their purchases, they are actively building relationships with customers that ensure loyalty from them.

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Electronic Shelf Labels Simplify Manual Processes

To keep things cost-effective and streamlined, many retailers have begun to gradually transition to digital processes.

Omnichannel Synchronicity

In the digital age, customers now have more than one way to shop. Aside from having physical stores, many retailers also have an online stores that customers can also purchase from. However, managing multiple shopping channels can be difficult to do manually. It may be too much for one person to do and the data may be less than accurate as well. Installing ESLs can help retailers keep track of their store channels because all the information is logged and updated for them. This forms something called an omnichannel, where every shopping method converges into one place.

More Efficient Customer Service

Through the display screen, customers can learn more about the product from the shelf edge, they just need to read what’s on it. Moreover, ESLs also have NFC capabilities, which enable mobile payments at the retail store.

Should customers want assistance, they can tap the screen or press a button on the ESL to alert one of the staff to assist them. This way, staff can focus on important tasks at the moment while providing stellar customer service.

Better Inventory Management

Using electronic shelf labels can help immensely because it can keep track of stock levels, record the data, and automatically update the records when changes are made. While employees may still need to do some counting and basic arithmetic, they can leave the tracking to the electronic shelf label. They can easily input the information on the ESL and keep an eye on the numbers on the system.

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ESLs Help Businesses During the Pandemic

There is no denying the fact that the world has permanently changed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

One way to help with this process is via automation by using electronic shelf tags or ESLs. Aside from improving workflows and making them more efficient, ESLs also help you take control of everything from a safe distance.

Providing Important Information at the Shelf’s Edge

Electronic shelf labels can replace your paper tags and can be used to display the price and other details about a product. Customers can simply look at the screen for more information or scan a code to download the data into their smartphone. No need to have your staff follow shoppers around just to give information out, the ESLs can do that for you.

Real-time Updates of Stock Levels

Through digital mapping, staff can then locate the exact product at the store when it’s time to replenish certain products. When stock levels are easier to monitor using the platform, employees can better plot when to restock items and order new stock.

Promoting Contactless Transactions

Another benefit that ESLs provide is that they enable shoppers to buy products without having to use cash or cards.

Automated Pricing Systems

With electronic shelf labels, there is no need to manually change prices. You can easily do it in minutes without printing new labels at all.

Store Channel Consistency

Monitoring sales, stock levels, and other factors can be harder to do when you have an online store and a physical store. Fortunately, ESLs also help create a consistent and synchronized omnichannel of both their online sales and physical store sales.

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