Best Buy Canada is a leading omnichannel technology retailer with a formidable presence, operating the Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile and Geek Squad brands. The company’s physical retail footprint of 134 big box Best Buy stores

and an additional 49 Best Buy Mobile stores spans from coast to coast. Several years ago, Best Buy Canada anticipated the growing need to provide today’s

consumer with increased interactivity and design in a physical retail experience. To that end, the company embarked on a multi-year effort to

enhance approximately 30 of its premier experience store locations across Canada with new interactive digital signage.

BrightSign Media Players Drive Interactive Digital Transformation in Best Buy Canada Experience Stores

Best Buy Canada’s state-of-the-art experience stores feature several new zones, each designed to enhance the shopping experience with interactive displays that enable customers to learn about and even demo the products

they’re considering. An “endless aisle” concept is central to the redesign – using interactive displays to deliver near-limitless information about products on the retail floor, as well as other products that can be ordered online

and delivered to customers’ homes.

A Dolby ATMOS Experience invites customers to enjoy the comfort of a home theater setting and use a touchscreen

controller to immerse themselves in an ATMOS-powered sight and sound environment. By selecting featured videos and

toggling between ATMOS, Stereo and Soundbar audio options, customers appreciate the potential of revolutionary home entertainment technology available at Best Buy Canada.

Smart Home is a new frontier for many customers who are learning how these products can improve and secure their homes. At Best Buy

Canada, customers are attracted to displays broadcasting the benefits of each product and

then can interact to learn more by scrolling through available options and read reviews from other customers. Switching between a variety of products, customers can choose what would fit

best within their home and budget while delving into a world of new possibilities.

“Our goal is to help customers enrich their lives through technology with a rewarding shopping

experience, both online and in-store. To deliver on this promise, we invested heavily in the latest

interactive digital signage to make it easy for our in-store customers to enjoy an immersive shopping experience unmatched by our

competitors.”

- Sean Wilson, VP of Store Design, Best Buy Canada

Traditional areas of the store, like Appliances and Computing Solutions, are also offering customers more information and

options than ever before. Interactive kiosks speed customers to the appliance option they are looking for, complete with

detailed features and real-time pricing.

An interactive “ink finder” enables customers to quickly identify replacement ink cartridges for their particular printer. All told,

Best Buy Canada’s experience stores contain more than a dozen interactive experiences with a variety of triggers and touch

options.

“This high-visibility project demanded the very best hardware to ensure flawless operation. BrightSign’splayers deliver the reliability we

needed, along with the flexibility to create and manage content exactly as

Best Buy envisioned, and deliver a superior customer experience.”

- John Campbell, Convergent’s SVP of Technology & Operations

Behind the programming and development of these solutions is Convergent Media Systems, which is focused on building innovative interactive experiences on the industry-leading BrightSign platform. Convergent integrated with Best Buy Canada’s API and developed much of the back-end content flow using BrightSign’s BrightAuthor

software platform. BrightSign’s XD1033 digital signage media players drive content on the various displays, enabling the interactive customer experiences and triggering product demos when selected by the customer.

As of March 2018, approximately 30 Best Buy stores in Canada had been retrofitted with the new interactive signage, with more to come. Strategy Online recently named Best Buy the Retail Innovator of the Year based on

the success of their new experience store format.