There are many use cases for the automatic shoe cover. Last week, we took a closer look at why and how automatic shoe covers work for real estate, including why so many real estate professionals rely on shoe covers for keeping property showings spotless. You’ll also find our automatic shoe covers in manufacturing facilities, laboratories, and various types of clean rooms.
When you look at automatic shoe cover use cases, you’ll notice two common themes: high foot traffic and a high standard for cleanliness. But the use cases on our website are hardly the only places with high foot traffic that could benefit from an automatic shoe cover.
Let’s get creative and look at some other uses for automatic shoe covers.
Online Shoe Shops
When we think about online shoe shops like Zappos, Walmart, or Amazon, we think about the convenience of their service and no-hassle return policy. But things get complicated with so many people taking out shoes, trying them on, and walking around. This increases the chance that shoes get dirty, sometimes causing rejected returns that cost both the company and customer time and money.
What if you could put a disposable shoe cover on the bottom of shoes before shipping, a cover that keeps the shoe clean (and returnable!) until the moment the buyer is ready to keep them?
Personal Use
Do you walk to work through a busy city? Then you know how messy things can get when when it rains or snows (or both). That slippery, slushy city walk, day in and day out, can deteriorate your footwear.
Rather than lug along another pair of shoes, or tiptoe around puddles and snowbanks, shoe covers can help prevent you from wearing your morning walk into work. Once you get there, all you have to do is take them off and toss them in the trash.
Hospital Waiting Rooms
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 125.7 million outpatient visits to hospitals around the United States in 2016. The Mayo Clinic took in 1.3 million people just this past year. All of these places are highly concerned with controlling infection. Apart from being a risk to patients, employees, and visitors, infection can contribute greatly to a hospital’s operating costs.
One way to help control infection is to encourage visitors to put on medical shoe covers in waiting rooms, or before they enter sensitive environments.
