Queues are bad. Bad for customers: no-one wants to be waiting in line. Bad for businesses: less sales and less repeat custom. Reducing queues will obviously increase customer satisfaction, but are there other benefits? An ice-cream retailer found that minimising queues meant not only happier customers but more of them. Not only that, but people … Continue reading How to use technology to reduce queues and sell more ice cream
Cameras and people counting technology let supermarket chain reduce the time customers spend queuing from 4 mins to just 26 seconds.
More than 7 people in a queue means people won’t join it. And they won’t wait in line more than 9 minutes. Additionally
70% are less likely to return to a store if they experience long waiting times on just one occasion. Video technology can help. By measuring queue lengths and waiting times, and connecting queue monitoring to POS systems, companies test queue reduction measures and assess their impact and profitability.
