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New Insights
Why Full-Service Hotels Still Benefit from a 24/7 Self-Checkout Market
Why would a full-service hotel need a self-checkout market — don’t they already offer restaurants, coffee shops and/or gift shops?
Over 50% of all GrabScanGo hotel lobby market sales occur between 8 PM and 2 AM.
That’s exactly when restaurants and shops are closed but the need is still high. Think about:
- Late night or early morning when guests want a quick snack, drink, or personal care item.
- Staffing challenges in shops or cafés for extended hours.
- Business travelers, families, and international visitors who expect on-demand convenience.
Full-service doesn’t always mean full availability. A 24/7 market complements traditional offerings and is a smart, low-effort way to enhance revenue, guest satisfaction, and OpEx.
Read the new blog on a turnkey, zero-labor solution that works for multiple hotel types, including full-service hotels.
Did You Know?
Hotel guests using our iPhone App Clip complete a purchase in under 15 seconds, from opening the App Clip, to scanning their item, to paying. Fast, simple, and seamless.
Insights
GrabScanGo = Mathematically Managed, Always Guest-Ready
In our July newsletter we introduced Beauty Stock™: the minimum level of front-facing inventory needed to maintain a clean, inviting, and well-stocked appearance even when product levels run low. In our newest blog we look at the math behind this merchandising philosophy.
Beauty Stock builds upon traditional inventory management by introducing dynamic visual thresholds based on high-velocity and low-velocity product performance.
This new blog gives you a chance to dust off your high school calculator and revisit Fun With Coefficients. Think: Differentiated Visual Appeal Cost, Standard Deviation of Demand, and so on.
Or, if you prefer the Cliffs Notes version, our Beauty Stock approach ensures that:
- Popular items maintain visual abundance: 20% minimum presence.
- Specialty items maintain continuous availability: always at least 1 unit.
- The market appears both well-stocked and diverse.
Our Beauty Stock model is more than merchandising; it’s applied mathematics with performance-based optimization that delivers measurable results.
Quick-Change
1 Day Setup!
How fast can we open a hotel market? Try 24 hours. Our service operator partner, UltraServ, was set to redesign and launch a new GrabScanGo lobby market in a few weeks.
Then the GM called with a trio of headaches: limited staff, no products, a busy weekend ahead.
So UltraServ sprang into action. They installed coolers and shelves the next morning and stocked product on the spot. And, with GrabScanGo’s patented plug-and-play checkout tech, they got the system live in just 10 minutes. By afternoon, the interim market was open.
This is the power of UltraServ + GrabScanGo. Fast. Flexible. Built for real-world hotel operations.
