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New Year’s Resolutions for Better Kiosk Care
Just like you, your kiosks have had a busy year. And if you happen to be a retailer, a restaurant owner, a hotel operator or a leisure venue, your kiosks and your staff will be ending the year working harder [...]
Four Things Driving Kiosks Towards a $10bn Market
Self-service kiosks are hardly the new kids on the business tech block anymore. But you wouldn’t know that by looking at the market growth forecasts. There’s definitely a new kid energy about the latest projection that global kiosk sales are [...]
In Good Health: How Kiosks are Bridging Gaps in Healthcare
Anyone who has tried to get an appointment with their GP recently knows that health services aren’t always running at their smoothest right now. The reasons are many and complex, and certainly far beyond the scope of this blog. But [...]
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Five Steps to Optimising Kiosk Performance
One of the classic errors businesses make with new technology is putting all their focus on the onboarding phase and expecting results to automatically follow. The underlying assumption here is that the simple act of adopting tech is sufficient to [...]
How Generative AI Could Transform the Information Kiosk Experience
Kiosks are best known for providing self-service ordering and checkout options in retail and hospitality. But there’s an argument to say that the most common (or at least the most broadly applicable) use for kiosks is as information points. From [...]
Why Self-Service Will Never Spell the End of People Power
It was Alan Turing, code-breaking war hero, computer science pioneer and all-around mathematical genius, who gave one of the earliest versions of the much-recycled “the machines are taking over” quote. It was during a pretty obscure lecture given in 1951 [...]
Cutting Through the Media Noise Around Self-Checkout
In our last blog, we tackled the issue of the high shrink rates being reported at supermarket self-checkout points, as customers supposedly take advantage of ‘weak’ security. Our perspective is that the weakness isn’t something inherent in the technology, but [...]
How Self-Service Can Complement Human Interactions
Nearly every business these days could be described as a hybrid operation. That’s hybrid in the sense of a mix of human and machine. The advance of digital technology means that the days when every process and interaction was handled [...]
Outdoor Kiosks: Who Are They For and What Are Their Benefits?
Ask people where they use self-service kiosks, the most common answer you will get is likely to be supermarket checkouts or fast food restaurants. Make a list of the top 10 answers, and we wouldn’t be surprised if they were [...]
How to Give Your Guests the Best Self-Service Experience in 2024
Self-service kiosks are having a transformational impact across customer-facing industries. Much of the buzz is focused on retail and the quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector. But that hardly scratches the surface of where kiosks are being used to reimagine the customer [...]
Five Benefits of Including Feedback Options on Your Kiosks
Customer feedback has become a familiar feature of the digital world. Buy something online, visit a website, download an app, you’ll often be asked to leave a review or share whether you were satisfied with the experience (or otherwise). There’s [...]
Why the Trend for Payment Kiosks Cannot Afford to Overlook Cash
Are we heading towards a cashless economy? Certainly, when you look at the growth in digital payments over the past decade or so, you can understand why a lot of people believe cash will become obsolete. And sooner rather than [...]
What are the Benefits of Voice-Controlled Kiosks?
Self-service ordering points changed the face of the quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector. Now we could be on the verge of another revolution. And it’s all thanks to voice-recognition AI - the kind of technology that lets you control your Alexa [...]
What Do People Really Think About Self-Service?
Self-service is part of the modern world we live in. Whether it’s scanning items at a supermarket self-checkout aisle, or browsing through an online knowledgebase to find out how to resolve an issue with a digital service, we’re all used [...]
Why a Returns Kiosk Should Be Top of Every Retailer’s Christmas List
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 [...]