Jim Sullivan, General Manager, Entertainment Retail for Themed Entertainment, said: "Kodak plans to lead the U.S. market in sticker prints with exciting content, including motion picture characters. We expect sticker kiosks to be popular traffic builders in shopping malls, specialty and mass market retailers, theme parks, and entertainment destinations."
The Kodak Image Magic sticker prints kiosks will be networked to transmit sales data.
The potential for the kiosks extends further than outputting sticker-backed photos. Mr. Sullivan said: "Digital technology enables products like this one to become key point-of-sale technologies for retail and entertainment destinations."
Headquartered in Richmond, VA, Fresh Picks maintains free-standing music departments in supermarkets, offering up to 800 music titles at each location. To expand the catalog offered in these stores, N2K will develop a customized version of its 200,000-title music store, Music Boulevard (www.musicblvd.com) to be integrated into interactive touch screen music kiosks found at these locations.
"We see a tremendous potential in bringing the music buying experience into high-traffic traditional retail environments such as supermarkets," said Jim Coane, President and Chief Operating Officer, N2K Inc. "Through this partnership with Fresh Picks, we can offer shoppers the convenience of browsing the entire Music Boulevard catalog quickly and easily, enhancing the shopping experience for a wider audience of music consumers."
The Music Boulevard-Fresh Picks music kiosks also include a video screen that will play advertising for special Music Boulevard promotions.
They can retouch, enlarge, crop, add text, remove red eye and personalize original pictures in various formats, including prints, negatives, slides, photo CDs and electronic files. In as little as four minutes, Make A Print provides customers with colorful prints on Polaroid paper in glossy or matte finishes. The stations also drive additional sales of photographic products, such as picture frames and film.
Mike Doukas, Polaroid’s Marketing Manager said, "With its intuitive interface, consumers can operate the Make a Print without the assistance of employees."
The station’s advanced features offer retailers the opportunity to generate substantially higher revenue.
A 27" television screen runs a combination of promotional spots for its ticketing clients, interspersed with advertising from leading national advertisers. The lower touch screen takes a consumer through the ticket purchase process and has advertorial/icon sponsor capabilities. ETM’s "gateway" connection to in-house ticketing systems allow customers to buy the best available seats.
ETM Ticket Machines are installed in high-traffic retail locations, such as supermarkets and shopping malls.
A web site allowed Wool’s message to reach the consumer in the comfort of home. Designed to encourage the consumer to visit their local retailer, the Web site includes an automated Retail Locator to find and print the location of the closest outlet for the products selected. Once inside the store, the i-MEDIA TouchBrowser allows access to the Web site, in a touch screen environment, reviewing all the same content that is available at home on the Web. The customer can use the point-of-sale system to place the selected carpets in a 3D photo-realistic room setting.
For more information, about ‘Sales XTRANet’s’ contact i-Media, Inc. at 770-346-0800.
The Green Hill Interactive Listening Centers are designed to act as an additional salesperson. When customers have the opportunity to sample recordings before the buy, they tend to purchase more, according to Gregory Byerline, Marketing Manager. Placing the listening center in a highly-trafficked area of the store encourages shoppers to try the music. The shopper can either use the attached headphones or, if no music is being played in the store already, they could hear it through the internal speakers.
The Monarch listening center features audio samples from best-selling Green Hill and Cumberland instrumental classics. Beautiful, backlit graphics feature 24 Green Hill titles.The listening center’s attractive wood grain and sturdy design complement any environment. Retailers can choose from different collections.
This unit is geared towards gift stores nationwide.
The Entervision Network, which consists of tailored audio, video and interactive programming, is positioned in the retail environment to attract customers with a blend of entertainment, information and advertising.
The EV Network can tailor different messages on a store-by-store, and even department-by-department basis. It contains consistently updated information on products and pricing in accordance with the advertiser’s specifications, and is accessed by a user-friendly touch screen.
For more information, contact Originet, 13555 SE 36th Street, Suite 300, Bellevue, WA 98006; (Tel) 425-562-4500.
Couples who register their wedding gift registry lists with Service Merchandise will receive a Dream Home sweepstakes entry for each gift purchase made on their behalf. Service Merchandise allows couples to register using touch screen kiosks and radio frequency scanning guns. Registrants get a print-out of the selected items, as well as announcement cards to inform friends they’re registered at Service Merchandise. Their information is then available at Service Merchandise stores nationwide. Real-time updates when items are purchased eliminate duplicate gifts.