Samsung Card · Interactive Device · 2015

ThankU Bar

A new way to promote Samsung Card at retail checkout — not the usual screen or point-of-purchase sign. The interactive ThankU bar fits seamlessly into the mart shopping experience: cost-effective, memorable, and non-disruptive to the vendor.

CompanySamsung Card
Role / TypeInteractive retail device
Year2015
The challenge

Promote a card at checkout without being annoying.

Retail checkout is crowded with promotional screens and point-of-purchase signs that shoppers have learned to ignore. Samsung Card wanted a presence there that was memorable and cost-effective — but not disruptive to the shopper or the vendor.

The idea was to design something that fits seamlessly into the existing mart experience rather than interrupting it.

The idea

A checkout divider that does more.

We developed the interactive ThankU bar — the humble plastic divider that separates customers' groceries on the belt. As well as dividing carts, it invites shoppers to insert their Samsung Card into a built-in slot for a faster, more efficient checkout.

It turns a throwaway retail object into a branded, genuinely useful moment — memorable precisely because it's helpful rather than intrusive.

ThankU Bar — an interactive checkout divider
ThankU Bar — an interactive checkout divider