The aisle decides.
Deli queue boards, meal-deal rotation, PPDS allergen icons, electronic shelf-pricing and click-and-collect pickup.
Grocery runs on aisle psychology. Every screen is a decision moment.
A supermarket is a 40-minute shop experienced in hundreds of micro-decisions: meal deal, allergen-check, price-comparison, reduced-to-clear, click-and-collect pickup. Static shelf-talkers and printed deli-queue boards handle these poorly. Hangar.Media connects to your grocery POS (NCR, Toshiba, Oracle Retail, SAP for Retail), your PPDS attribute system for allergens, and your click-and-collect picker software so every screen — deli counter, meal-deal fridge, aisle-end, self-checkout, click-and-collect counter — surfaces the live, accurate information the shopper needs at that moment.
Built for how grocery & supermarkets actually run.
The capabilities that matter in this sector — concrete, specific, and backed by the integrations your team already uses.
The deli queue is 12 deep. The board tells the shoppers why it's worth it.
Deli-counter screens show live queue-position, estimated wait, today's cut-of-the-day special, and allergen icons on every sliced product. When the queue hits 15 minutes, promotional messaging switches to 'browse the aisles, we'll call your ticket'. Customers peel off to other aisles instead of walking out frustrated — measurable deli-sales recovery.
Deli queues used to shed shoppers at 10 minutes. Now they stay — and they come back.
- Live queue-ticket call from deli-counter ticket system
- Estimated wait-time calculation from throughput data
- Cut-of-the-day, speciality-cheese and fresh-fish daily hero rotation
- Allergen-icon overlay per sliced product for Natasha's Law compliance
The meal deal display knows what's in stock. Right now.
Meal-deal fridge and gondola-end screens rotate the current promotion (main + snack + drink for £3.50, for example) with live stock-aware content. When the chicken-mayo sandwich sells out at lunch, it disappears from the rotation; the BLT becomes the hero. When the promotion ends at midnight, every screen reverts to standard menu. Meal-deal attach-rate is the single biggest lunchtime revenue lever in most grocery formats.
The meal-deal screen sells the sandwich that's in the fridge — not the one that ran out at 11am.
- Meal-deal pricing (£3 / £3.50 / £5) with POS-locked discount codes at the till
- Stock-aware content — sold-out SKUs auto-hide from meal-deal displays
- Daypart meal-deal rotation (breakfast deal, lunch deal, tea-time deal)
- Per-store meal-deal composition for regional menu variants
Natasha's Law on every sandwich. Not buried in a QR code.
PPDS (Pre-Packed for Direct Sale) food — the sandwiches, salads, hot-counter items made in-store — has required full allergen and ingredient labelling since October 2021. Hangar.Media ships the 14 regulated allergen icons natively, populates them from your PPDS attribute system (or our in-platform attribute tool), and displays them inline on every relevant fresh-food screen. Every attribute change is audit-logged for FSA inspection.
FSA inspector asks what the allergens said on the 12 July sandwich sign. 30-second export. Done.
- 14 regulated allergen icons natively, plus vegan / vegetarian / kosher / halal flags
- PPDS attribute integration (in-house systems or via REST API)
- Per-item audit log of allergen-attribute changes
- Multi-language allergen display for international-customer traffic (EN / ES / PL / UR / AR)
The label says £2.99. The till says £2.99. Always.
Electronic shelf-label (ESL) integration with Pricer, SES-imagotag or Hanshow means the aisle price is live from your POS. Price harmonisation happens in seconds — not on the overnight-batch print run. 'Reduced-to-clear' yellow-label promotions push from the back-office with per-item expiry. Price-protest incidents (shelf label doesn't match till) drop to near-zero.
Price-protest incidents at the till drop to near-zero when the shelf agrees with the POS.
- Pricer, SES-imagotag, Hanshow ESL integration
- Per-SKU, per-store pricing with audit log for trading-standards
- Reduced-to-clear and yellow-sticker promotion workflow
- Batch promotional pricing across categories with preview-all-stores
The customer's order is on the board. Pickup takes 60 seconds.
Click-and-collect pickup-counter boards integrate with your order-picker software (Instacart, Ocado, Shopify Plus OMS, custom internal picker app) to show which orders are ready, where to collect, and current pickup-wait time. Orders appear on the board within 60 seconds of the picker marking them complete. Customers stop milling around looking for a helper — the board answers.
The pickup board shows the order. The customer collects. Nobody asks customer service.
- Order-picker software integration (Instacart, Ocado, custom internal)
- Alias-only privacy by default (first-name-only display)
- Pickup-wait-time calculation from current picker activity
- Multi-language pickup prompts for international customers
Every screen in the building.
From customer-facing walls to operational dashboards — the scenarios that make the platform worth running day-to-day.
Live ESL pricing and promotional overlays
Electronic shelf-label integration with Pricer, SES-imagotag, Hanshow. Live prices, reduced-to-clear promotional overlays, and per-SKU availability.
Queue boards and allergen compliance
Deli-counter queue-ticket boards, estimated-wait displays, cut-of-the-day rotation, and Natasha's Law allergen icons on every sliced product.
Lunch and breakfast deal promotion
Gondola-end and fridge-adjacent screens rotating live meal-deal offers with stock-aware content and daypart scheduling.
Order-ready pickup boards
Pickup-counter screens integrated with order-picker software showing live order-ready status and wait-time with alias-only privacy.
Payment-assistance and fraud-prevention signage
Self-checkout-adjacent screens with payment-help prompts, age-verification reminders (alcohol, tobacco), and staff-call-button messaging.
Sunlight-readable campaign and opening-hours
2,500-nit window screens with seasonal campaigns, today's meal-deal, click-and-collect sign-up QR, and live opening-hours messaging.
The integrations that actually matter here.
Every integration is included in every plan. These are the ones grocery & supermarkets operators reach for first.
NCR
UK-dominant grocery POS with meal-deal, stock and PPDS attribute sync.
Learn More →Square for Retail
Convenience and small-grocery POS with cloud management.
Learn More →Pricer ESL
Electronic shelf-label hardware for aisle-level price harmonisation.
Learn More →MenuZen
Hot-food-counter and deli menu-board design with allergen-icon library.
Learn More →Weather Forecast
Weather-triggered category promotion (BBQ range in sunshine, soup in cold snaps).
Learn More →Common questions. Straight answers.
Which grocery POS systems do you integrate with?
NCR (the dominant UK grocery POS), Toshiba, Oracle Retail, SAP for Retail, Retalix, Diebold Nixdorf and 8+ others. Meal-deal pricing, stock-level sync, and allergen attributes all flow from the POS. For ESL-equipped aisles, we also integrate with Pricer, SES-imagotag and Hanshow for shelf-edge price harmonisation.
How do you handle PPDS and Natasha's Law allergen compliance?
PPDS food — sandwiches, salads, hot-food-counter items, in-store-bakery items — requires full allergen disclosure on-pack since October 2021. We integrate with your PPDS attribute system (or provide our own lightweight attribute tool for operators without one) and populate the 14 regulated allergen icons inline with every fresh-food display. Every attribute change is audit-logged with timestamp and source for FSA inspection. Multi-language allergen display supports diverse customer bases.
Can shelf-edge prices update in real time across thousands of SKUs?
Yes. In a Pricer / SES-imagotag / Hanshow ESL-equipped store, a price change from your POS back-office propagates to the relevant shelf label within minutes. A full-store reset (e.g. Monday-morning prices) typically completes within 30 minutes for a 10,000-SKU store. Audit log captures every label change with timestamp — trading-standards compliance evidence is one CSV export.
What does a setup cost for a mid-size supermarket chain?
£5 per screen per month, flat. A 50-store supermarket operator running 20 screens per store (deli, meal-deal, click-and-collect, self-checkout, storefront, plus select category-ends) pays £5,000 per month. Every feature in scope, every integration bundled. No enterprise gate, no volume dance.
Adjacent sectors.
Operators in grocery & supermarkets frequently borrow patterns and playbooks from these neighbouring verticals.
Convenience & Forecourt
Hourly fuel-price pole signs, impulse-buy and lottery jackpot tickers.
Liquor & Off-LicencesLiquor & Off-Licences
Age-verification, wine pairing and seasonal spirit promotion.
QSR & Fast CasualQSR & Fast Casual
Drive-thru menu boards and KDS-integrated order-ready screens.
Shopping CentresShopping Centres
Centre-wide wayfinding and tenant-directory signage.
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