DIMA Photo Kiosk Shootout Results

Recent competition at PMA Show in Las Vegas results with Storefront winning 6 of 8 awards with the photo kiosk used provided by KIOSK Information Systems.

Storefront.com Wins the Super Bowl of Kiosks with a Blowout Victory

To the folks at Storefront.com, the Super Bowl is over. They won and are now uncorking the champagne to douse each another.

The equivalent of the Super Bowl in the kiosk business is the DIMA Photo Kiosk Shoot-Out, which was held in Las Vegas the day before PMA opened. Unlike the face-off in Arizona, where one team plays only one other team in one game, DIMA's Super Bowl pits 28 kiosks in eight separate competitions.

Storefront.com won six of the eight competitions, the most one-sided blowout since the Shoot-Out five years ago. Kodak was a winner of one category, and Whitech the other.

The competition is broken down into four separate categories: Digital Order Station; Instant Print Kiosk; Software Only; and Multi-Function Photo Kiosk. Each category is judged by two different panels: a group of three industry experts and a consumer panel of local residents. In total: eight competitions.

Kodak took the Expert's Choice honors with its new G4x Print Station in the Multi-Function Photo Kiosk category as selected by the expert panel. Whitech was the winner in the Digital Order Station group, with its PT2600 taking the People's Choice honors. Storefront.com swept the other six, three from the experts and three more from the consumer panel. Its IT-2000 kiosk won two of the awards.

The expert panel consisted of FRANCIE MENDELSOHN, Summit Research Associates; ROBERT PORTER, Euro Kiosks Network; and LAWRENCE DVORCHIK, KioskCom (JD Events). CHAD MUNCE, PMA executive, digital imaging markets, coordinated the Shoot-Out competition for DIMA.

Asked for his reaction when he first heard about the six awards, TOM CEH, senior VP, Sales and Marketing for Storefront.com, said he used exclamations not suitable for printing in a family publication. Then: "We were ecstatic, totally flabbergasted. The word 'wow' is definitely in play." In describing his firm that flies somewhat below the radar, Tom said, "People are beginning to see Storefront.com as a leader in the kiosk space." Among the firm's customers are Kroger, Duane Reade, Fred Meyer, and King Soopers.

MURRAY MACDONALD is president and BOB RICCI is CEO of Storefront.com. To them, Super Bowl Sunday's game was only an incidental event.
-Jerry Lansky

Check-In Kiosks

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Vanguard wins award for airport car rental kiosks

By Bill Yackey contributor • 13 Aug 2007

After security checks, long flights and baggage claims, the last thing travelers want to do is wait in another line at the airport. Fortunately self-service is making its way to end of the air travel gauntlet in the form of car-rental kiosks.

The company with the most car-rental kiosk deployments thus far has been Vanguard Car Rental USA Inc., operators of the National Car Rental and Alamo Car Rental brands. Vanguard’s self-service kiosk deployment earned the company the Industry Deployer of the Year Award at Self Service Expo in April. The award was given at an awards ceremony at the Mandalay Bay convention center in Las Vegas.

Vanguard's new ad campaign focuses on using kiosks to cut down wait times. Susan Palazzese, vice president of business development for Vanguard, said that the company is currently operating 262 kiosks; 152 at Alamo locations and 110 at National locations. The rollout began in November 2006 after several successful market tests in Jacksonville, Fla., Las Vegas and Dallas.

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