Please describe your company's primary product or service.
Located in the meat, seafood and produce department of retail food stores, ShoptoCook's easy-to-use touch screen kiosk applications wrap the perishable perimeter with interactive media solutions designed to satisfy shoppers, promote the perishable department, and increase sales.
ShoptoCook offers subscription based and turnkey services including hardware and enclosure design and setup, state of the art remote wellness and activity monitoring including web based content management and reporting features, and custom application development.
ShoptoCook's suite of retail food applications also includes health and wellness, wine and cheese, price checker, aisle locater, and loyalty card integration. The turnkey plug and play design provides retailers a complete retail food sales and marketing solution with a proven ROI.
What makes your company unique?
ShoptoCook combines professional food industry expertise with leading edge technology expertise to offer clients a total interactive media solution.
We understand the food retail and manufacturing business, the shopper and the technology.
What is your marketing philosophy for the kiosk industry?
We are a media company, in the food industry, that uses kiosks as a technology to deliver services direct to shoppers. Our customers are senior executives of retail food chains responsible for marketing strategy.
What other business sectors do you operate in?
We focus only on the Retail Food industry.
Give a brief history of the company
The firm was founded in 2001 by food industry professionals with technology and product development experience. Creativity and technical expertise combined with constant attention to the needs of the shopper are responsible in part for the organization's success. Our applications can be found across the country in the largest retail chains and independent wholesalers.
Why did you join The Self-Service & Kiosk Association?
The industry is changing rapidly, price points are declining, and new solutions emerge regularly so it's a great tool to stay abreast of the industry.
What do you like about our industry? What are some of the challenges?
The industry is dynamic which creates opportunity. The challenge is selling kiosks as a strategic tool to solve business problems and getting senior executives involved beyond IT.
What does the future hold for your company's success in the kiosk industry?
We develop solutions to meet current demand with an eye on the future.
On-demand technology offerings will grow dramatically in the next few years and we intend to be the leader in developing innovative solutions to meet the retail food industry's needs.
