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Kiosks Are Great for Business. But They Make the World a Better Place, Too
Regular readers will know we enjoy a story about innovative and inspiring uses of kiosks and related self-service technology. This month, this story caught our attention about the growing trend for book vending machines in the USA. The inspiring part [...]
Four Self-Service Kiosk Trends to Watch Out For in 2025
In the world of tech, you have to pause for breath every now and then just to cope with the dizzying pace of innovation. Otherwise it all flies past in an incomprehensible blur. So with that in mind, we thought [...]
Using Kiosks to Help Customers Make More Informed Choices
Another year, another slew of headlines about weak retail performance and rock-bottom consumer confidence. On the back of a sluggish peak Christmas trading period, there is even talk of vendors being forced into pushing up prices yet again in 2025. [...]
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Four Tips for Creating Interactive Experiences In Store
In a previous post, we set out to explain the role that interactive kiosks could play in revamping bricks-and-mortar retail. With falling footfall and customer expectations increasingly conditioned by the digital experiences they get online, retailers are under pressure to [...]
Five Benefits Of Self-Service Card Dispensing
Self-service card dispensing has become increasingly popular among businesses and institutions. Making full use of the innovations kiosk technology offers, modern self-service dispensers automate the entire process of creating and issuing cards, whether for identification, security clearance, access, store loyalty [...]
Four Easy Wins to Optimise the Self-Service Kiosk Experience
It’s no secret why self-service kiosks have proven to be such a roaring success. 85% of consumers say that self-service is quicker and more convenient than staffed alternatives. In other words, kiosks provide a winning experience that is right in [...]
How BOPIS Kiosks Can Help Monetise Your Business Premises
We all know that online commerce has revolutionised retail. In 2022, more than a quarter (26.5%) of all retail sales in the UK were digital, double the figure from a decade earlier. There are a lot of plus points to [...]
Five Questions to Ask Before You Buy Your Next Kiosk
Globally, self-service kiosks represent a real growth market. Some forecasts put expected CAGR over the next five years into double-digits, as more and more businesses across all sectors of the economy look to get onboard with this game-changing technology. The [...]
Four Ways Kiosks Can Boost Inclusivity
Inclusivity is one of the watchwords of the modern world. Yet despite great strides being made in recent years to make workplaces and public spaces more accessible and welcoming to all, it’s clear we still have a long way to [...]
Why EV Charging Points are Emerging as a Hot Kiosk Trend
There are a number of different reasons why kiosks have become one of the technological success stories of the past decade. One is undoubtedly their versatility. They have proven to be adept at adapting new use cases time and time [...]
Unattended Retail: Four Models and What They Have to Offer Part 2
In our last post, we started to explore the diversity in kiosk use cases across retail. Under the umbrella term ‘unattended retail’, kiosk technology has become a driving force in retail innovation, delivering choice and convenience to shoppers through self-service, [...]
Unattended Retail: Four Models and What They Have to Offer Part 1
The surest sign that a technology has reached full maturity is when it starts to evolve and diversify beyond its original use cases. Or its original design, for that matter. On that basis, kiosks have been a ‘mature’ technology for [...]
The Importance of User Interface Design for Self-Service Kiosks
Technology is capable of truly amazing things. But without paying attention to the user interface design (UI), it doesn’t matter how clever or groundbreaking or revolutionary your tech product is. If it’s not simple and straightforward for people to use, [...]
How Kiosk Technology is Driving Smart Vending
Remember the vending machines of old? Coin-operated, and mechanical, it often felt something of a lottery as to whether you’d get the product you wanted. Today’s models look very different. Slick, digital, touchscreen operated - like so many electronic devices, [...]
What Are Smart City Kiosks and What Are They Used For?
In an age when everything from phones to TVs to homes is ‘smart’, smart cities stand out as the most ambitious of all such data-fuelled, connected concepts. It’s a simple matter of scale. Something like a smart refrigerator, for example, [...]