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WinesandRecipes.com™ is designed to help consumers select wines that meet their individual needs. Being wine consumers for the past 20 years, we are dedicated to the art of wine selection and food pairing. Our format is unique in the industry, providing the unique marriage of Internet technology for maximum availability and in-store kiosk technology for point of selection convenience.

WinesandRecipes.com™ provides Retailers, Wine Producers, and Distributors with state of the art technology to enhance the consumer decision making process, drive consumer loyalty and repeat business, and help consumers to find retailers in their area which offer the wines which they have selected on our Internet site.

WinesandRecipes.com™ is provided to retailers with 3 sets of options which help you to increase your wine sales, increase customer loyalty and repeat business, and help your customers to pair wine and food choices that are matched to their personal preferences.

Our in-store Kiosk uses state of the art equipment and service to ensure that you operate a turnkey service that requires minimal in-store support and floor space. We provide you with the wine expert that your store may not be able to afford during all store hours of operation.

We help your customers to match cheeses and recipes with the necessary ingredients to increase in store sales for complementary products. With WinesandRecipes.com™ custom store branded service options, You may develop your service to recommend specific wine of the week or wine of the month and advertise special offers and/or special events.

WinesandRecipes.com™ Kiosk services provides 3 levels of options.
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The kiosk is an extension of our website and has the same functionality but in a kiosk user interface. To get an idea of the data relationships and content, explore the website version by clicking HERE.

For a Webinar demonstration of the kiosk please contact us at Marketing@WinesandRecipes.com.


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Frequently asked questions

1. What types of tangible benefits can supermarket retailers gain by offering kiosks and/or other forms of interactive technology to their customers?
  • Provide the retailer with a merchandising toolset which the consumer may utilize at the ‘point of selection’ to drive cross-sales within the store, and increase average ticket size. According to a recent survey by Summit Research Associates: Kiosks in retail show a 6-8% increase to incremental sales.
  • Provide a vehicle for the retailer to drive targeted promotional messages.
  • Reduce the grocer’s need for expert staff in specialty department by providing information from multiple trusted sources.
  • Reduce staff operating expense
2. From a customer perspective, what is the appeal of interactive technology?
  • Improve the buying experience by providing trusted information at the point of selection.
  • Increase efficiency to reduce the amount of time required to complete shopping task
  • Convenience services such as couponing, price checking, faster checkout
  • In a recent survey research study by Constellation Brands, 2 consumer segments representing 29% of shoppers were unlikely to be influenced by store recommendations. Kiosk technology that provides unbiased, trusted recommendations are more likely to resonate with the consumer.
3. What types of boundaries remain in terms of consumer acceptance of these devices?
  • Very few. Consumers are more accepting of these devices thanks to ATM’s, airline check-in, self-check out and price checkers.
  • According to recent study by IBM: Sixty-eight percent of respondents prefer shopping in retail stores with price scanners that confirm prices before checkout. Forty-five percent of shoppers said that an interactive touch screen with product information on the wall or shelf next to merchandise displays would most likely encourage them to shop at specific retailers.
4. How do you feel that your kiosk/interactive technology offering is unique?
  • WinesandRecipes.com™ differentiated ourselves by winning first place in the category of "Best Content in a Kiosk Deployment" at the 2005 KioskCom.com's Annual Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards. “The awards are intended to showcase the best kiosk applications and designs for the many industries that currently use interactive, self-service kiosks. The winners will set the standards of excellence for future kiosk implementations,” said Lawrence Dvorchik, KioskCom.com's COO and the Executive Director for the awards program.
  • The distinction between WinesandRecipes.com™ Kiosk and others which you may have seen is that we provide strong cross selling tools that helps to build sales in multiple departments. We have a strong cheese section that is expandable to accommodate the retailers’ full specialty cheese selection which includes wine pairing notes for each cheese.
  • In addition, we maintain a recipe section that provides wine pairing recommendations with each recipe – a real value add to many wine consumers. Each recipe prints out with an ingredients list which becomes a consumer convenience and helps to cross-sell items in the grocery section.
  • The kiosk allows advertising of the store’s events as an added opportunity to build customer inertia for products and services.
  • Our application is hardware agnostic and has been ported to run on several hardware solutions.
  • Our application can be integrated with other solution providers’ applications on a license and subscription basis.


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