The worldwide market for retail digital signage displays is valued at an estimated $1.4 billion for 2006 accounting for 13 percent of the total Signage and Professional Market. - iSuppli 4Q 2006 Topical Report

The retail signage market is expected to expand from 498,668 units in 2006 to 2.1 million units in 2010. - iSuppli 4Q 2006 Topical Report

The US accounts for 41 percent of global retail consumption, however byJgW, Asia is expected to reach parity with the US in consumption. - iSuppli 4Q 2006 Topical Report

Retailers show a six to eight percent increase to incremental sales when they added kiosks to their stores. - KioskCom's Self-Service Expo

Kiosks in North American retail locations will rise 20 percent in 2005, and 69 percent by 2007 - KioskCom's Self-service Expo

The DVD-Rental kiosk industry is predicted to be worth $1 billion over the next five years. - TNR's Pioneering Survey of the DVD-Rental kiosk industry

Studies show that 75 percent of all customer purchase decisions happen while they're in the store but less than five percent of the marketing money is spent in the store. - eWeek.com

Worldwide advertising spending is anywhere from $600 billion to $800 billion annually, and 95 percent of that is untargeted. - Google CEO Eric Schmidt, posted on DigitalSignageToday.com

An IHL report projected that grocers overall will spend $9.8 billion on IT purchases this year, which is about 5.8 percent more than last year. - IHL Consulting Group

39 percent of consumers are willing to use timesaving self-service alternatives to help reduce their wait times. - NCR Corp.

44 percent of consumers are frustrated by waiting in line because of the lack of employees able to assist them. - NCR Corp.

Customers spend 2 or more days per year waiting in line. - NCR Corp.

More than 70 percent of c-level executives believe awareness of RFID has improved. - Retail Systems Alert Group

Nearly 80 percent of directors believe awareness of RFID has improved. - Retail Systems Alert Group

60 percent of managers believe awareness of RFID has improved. - Retail Systems Alert Group

More than 20 percent of Frontline employees believe awareness of RFID has improved. - Retail Systems Alert Group

88 percent of all online consumers use the Internet to research products. -Forrester Research

Less than 20 percent of consumers read old-fashioned coupon circulars. -Pay by Touch

U.S. consumers spend 50 percent more at credit or debit card-enabled vending machines. -ePaynews

56 percent of Canadians would choose a store that offered self-service technologies. -Ipsos Reid

Forty-two percent of shoppers are either very likely or likely to choose stores that will offer this self-service option over ones that do not. -NCR Corp.

Over 50 percent of shoppers make three or more short visits to stores each week to buy a few items. -NCR Corp.

56 percent of shoppers want to use self-service to pre-order items, such as deli items, and collect them later in the store. -NCR Corp.

58 percent of shoppers want to use self-service to order items that are out of stock -NCR Corp.

Out-of-home ad spending in China has increased to $360 million in 2006, from $5 million in 2003. -Thomson Out-of-Home Media Services

Digital signage in China's Big Cafe chain of premium Internet cafes serves ads to more than 1million visitors per day. -Thomson Out-of-Home Media Services

SELF-CHECKOUT

Sales of items like chewing gum and breath mints, chocolate candy, chips and salty snacks, soda and water in grocery stores have dropped of 40 percent overall from people who say they buy it in a standard lane but do not buy it in a self-checkout lane. - eWeekcom

Consumers will buy breath mints or chewing gum on 20 percent of their shopping trips when going through a standard checkout, but when going through self-checkout, it drops to about 11.4 percent. - el/l/ee/c.com

More than 94 percent of consumers have used self-checkout, and 40 percent of consumers who have used it say they "really like it". -IHL Consulting Group

5 percent of consumers say they "will not use it." -IHL Consulting Group

27 percent of consumers use self-checkout more than 70 percent of the time. -IHL Consulting Group

Nearly one-fifth of self-checkout users claim to use it "all the time" when it is available. -IHL Consulting Group

37 percent of retail grocery shoppers say that they use self-checkout "always" or "most of the time." -Self-Service World survey of grocery shoppers

18 percent of retail grocery shoppers say they use self-checkout about half the time. -Self-Service World survey of grocery shoppers

10 percent of retail grocery shoppers say that they do not use self-checkout at all. -Self-Service World survey of grocery shoppers

66 percent of retail grocery shoppers say that they use self-checkout because the traditional lines are too long. -Self-service World survey of grocery shoppers

62 percent of retail grocery shoppers say they prefer self-checkout because of its speed. -Self-service World survey of grocery shoppers

52 percent of retail grocery shoppers say they use self-checkout because it is more convenient. -Self-service World survey of grocery shoppers

77 percent of retail grocery shoppers say they only have to ask a self-checkout staffer for assistance "seldom" or "occasionally". -Self-service World survey of grocery shoppers

7 percent of retail grocery shoppers say that they have to ask for help from self-checkout staffers fairly often. -Self-service World survey of grocery shoppers

66 percent of people say they want self-service at the checkout to make shopping faster and more convenient -NCR Corp.

66 percent of shoppers want to use self-service check-out that enables them to scan, bag and pay for items themselves -NCR Corp.

More than 90 percent of consumers surveyed said they had used a self-checkout lane in the previous 12 months -IHL Consulting

39 percent of consumers are willing to use timesaving self-service alternatives to help reduce their wait times -Opinion Research Corp.