No retailer expects every customer to be happy with every item they purchase. But a worrying rise in the number of returns is causing businesses all sorts of headaches. And with Christmas just around the corner, many retailers are bracing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]