What are the little radio boxes that some stores have?

[Cobra_Commander]

I see them being used at Walgreens and CVS. I work at Walmart and they are talking about replacing the murs radios we use to those. What frequency or are these box radios digital?

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

A picture is worth 1000 words..

 

[BinaryMode]

Are you reffering to the black box with antennas hanging from the ceiling? If so, those would just be for the wireless barcode readers/inventory unit things. I don't remember their name. I used one waaaay back in high school while working at a department store.

 

[mmckenna]

I see them being used at Walgreens and CVS. I work at Walmart and they are talking about replacing the murs radios we use to those. What frequency or are these box radios digital?

No idea what brand those stores use, but many companies make products that will do this:


Example - Ritron makes some:

Wireless Solutions for Retailers | Customer Service Call Button | Ritron

Boost customer service, control costs and improve employee productivity with shopper call buttons, sensor monitoring, and voice alerting transmitters.

www.ritron.com

Motorola:

Retail Call Button Boxes - Motorola Solutions

Improve the customer experience of your retail stores by connecting your customers to your staff on the floor instantly. With our retail call boxes, your customers can call for assistance at the push of a button.

www.motorolasolutions.com

There are other manufacturers, but you get the idea….
Frequency depends on what the store wants, VHF, UHF….


If you are working at a WalMart, they've been talking about ditching radios and using a smart phone with a "two way radio" type app. The smart phone would allow price scanning, and pretty much anything else you can imagine.

 

[footage]

Often set to 467.850.

 

[n8yid]

Are they "wearing" these little boxes, along with an earplug...?

If so, these may be a WIFI radio, like this...

Mobile Communication Platform | Theatro Labs

Connect your entire team to each other and to critical enterprise apps, using only their voice on our mobile communication platform.

www.theatro.com

I'm seeing a lot of retail places change-over to these.... (ie.. Cabelas, Olive Garden, etc)

 

[R8000]

Are they "wearing" these little boxes, along with an earplug...?

If so, these may be a WIFI radio, like this...

Mobile Communication Platform | Theatro Labs

Connect your entire team to each other and to critical enterprise apps, using only their voice on our mobile communication platform.

www.theatro.com

I'm seeing a lot of retail places change-over to these.... (ie.. Cabelas, Olive Garden, etc)

Thanks for the link. Never saw those before.
It is one of those companies that has a website that tells you how great they are, but don't actually tell you what product they sell. Grrrrr.
I had to look at the training section for the YouTube videos on how to use the device to even see what the product was.