Analysing the average shopping time proved to be the key to solving the mystery of the underperforming supermarket, significantly increasing the number of items people buy on each shopping trip
Video analytics helps banks improve their speed of service and increase the uptake of special promotions. Banks, like other businesses, set targets for customer service. For example, queuing for no longer than four minutes. A smart video people counting system will tell you: The number of people currently in a queue The queuing time of … Continue reading How Video Analytics Helps Banks Improve Customer Service
More than 7 people in a queue means people won’t join it. And they won’t wait in line more than 9 minutes. Furthermore 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.
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.
