In the ultra-high-tech digitised world we live in, it’s almost anomalous that there are still things we can’t buy without permission from a living, breathing, flesh-and-bones human being. How quaint and old-fashioned! Yet that’s the reality of purchasing alcohol, tobacco, vapes, fireworks and plenty more age-restricted products. And it poses a problem for self-service. A [...]
Buying a new kiosk for your business requires you to weigh up plenty of things. One that might not be top of your checklist is what happens when a kiosk reaches its end of life several years down the line. People start making retirement plans years before the actual event - often from the moment [...]
Here at Acante, it’s a source of pride that we’ve long been ahead of the curve on what we like to call ident kiosks - self-service kiosks used primarily for identification purposes. While other manufacturers and vendors concentrated on self-service checkouts and customer-facing information points, we were early to recognise the potential of kiosks for [...]
In this previous post, we discussed using self-service kiosks to help ease the chronic backlog of cases that have been hampering the UK court system for a number of years now. Since we wrote that article, the situation has gotten worse rather than better. In the last quarter of 2025, the outstanding caseload at Crown [...]
A recent survey of large retail chains in the US produced a remarkable stat about self-service technology adoption. It found that retailers classified as being at a mature stage of self-service adoption were now running, on average, 3.5 distinct self-service types. The ‘types’ covered in the report reveal a clear bias in focus towards supermarket/grocery [...]
We’re getting to that time of year when people’s thoughts start to turn to summer holiday plans. But this year, a lot of Brits might be thinking twice about heading to Europe after some horror-story headlines surrounding the launch of the EU’s new automated Entry/Exit System (EES) for non-EU travellers. On the face of it, [...]
From events to retail, sports and leisure venues to public amenities, LED video walls are supersizing digital signage and graphic displays across many different locations. As we discussed in this previous post, LED walls are ideal when you want to make a big visual statement that really grabs attention. But they have the added benefit [...]
There’s no shortage of theories explaining why self-service technology has become such a phenomenal success. They cover the obvious benefits to businesses of offloading core operational aspects of service and transactions to customers and end users, reducing workloads and labour pressures in the process. But any theory of self-service success also must acknowledge the plain [...]
It’s a good time to be a kiosk vendor. Demand continues to rise, and the overall value of the market is forecast to grow by close to 11% year-on-year to 2030. That will see millions of new kiosks purchased and installed over the next four years - great news for a business like ours. But [...]
Splashing the cash is something few of us can afford to do without a considerable amount of care and attention at present. As a business owner, this can leave you feeling conflicted. On the one hand, you want to invest in growth, and you know that tech in particular can help in a big way. [...]
