The Benefits of having a Self Service Kiosk in Your Business

By: S. Roberts

Doesn’t it seem that more and more machines are springing up in the most unlikely places? Self-order express kiosks can be found in retail shops. Local councils have touch screen computers offering information to the public. Chemists have machines giving customers health checks, and even supermarkets have self-checkout tills now.
So why are kiosks so popular? Are companies benefiting or is it all just a waste of money?

I suppose the most obvious benefit is that kiosks can reduce labour costs. For example, at an express self-service checkout, where a single employee can operate multiple machines. It may be argued that some customers find computerised services very impersonal, however, this is only a small percentage. In actual fact, many customers prefer the privacy and ambiguity of buying personal items at such a checkout. Likewise they would rather give their personal information to a machine as in the case of pharmacy health checks.

Not only can kiosks cut down on labour costs but they can also deal with information. They can for example, offer information either on screen or as a print out to be taken away; this could be public information as in the case of local authority councils or maybe in store promotions, reward vouchers, or up and coming events. Therefore turning the kiosk into an effective advertising and marketing tool, encouraging return custom, an achievement that your current employees may not have the opportunity or time to achieve with limited interaction time with the customers.

Kiosks are also great tools for collecting information. Surveys can be added to kiosks to enable them to gather market research about your customers, their spending habits and their needs. Just think how knowing this information about your customers could help your business. It could unlock the full potential of your business and provide your customers with exactly what they want so that they don’t go to your competitors. And as you know, happy customers recruit new customers by word of mouth, this kind of advertising is worth its weight in gold.

Kiosks can be built to any design, so that ‘Your’ kiosk can be made to a style and design to suit the premises of where the kiosk is to be installed. This means that the kiosk will only add to the ascetics of its environment, and not detract from it.

In short, a kiosk in your company can increase order values, improve profitability, up-sell as well as cross sell, whilst improving staff productivity. No wonder then that so many businesses are now using kiosks.

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