Long lines during shopping aren't anything new, but shoppers may have to wait longer this year with the installation of chips in new credit cards. EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) is the new credit-card chip technology that has customers ...
Your customers are a thrifty bunch and, just like your customers, you understand the value of thrift. With the right dollar store POS system, you can ensure your dollar store is running as cost-effectively as possible. Here’s how a dollar store PO...
There’s a saying that nothing in life is free. There are a lot of companies that give away products or services for free; however, one has to ask oneself, is it really free? Why would a company give a product away for free? A company gives a produ...
Retailers and other small merchants may be reluctant to trade in their cash registers for a full-fledged point of sale system, as long as the register is adequately performing its job of ringing up transactions. But for a business to grow in today...
While there are certainly exceptions to the rule, there is a lot of truth to the old saying: “You get what you pay for.” (That’s probably one of the reasons the saying has lasted long enough to be an old one.) This maxim certainly applies to “free...
Merchants large and small have a number of strong incentives to ensure their payment processes are as safe and secure as possible. In addition, maintaining regulatory compliance and reducing the threat of financial losses and penalties, making a f...
Every retail and restaurant operation needs a top-caliber POS system in order to increase customer throughput, to track sales and profits, and to efficiently manage inventory, merchandising, marketing, and other functions that are vital to success...
If you’re like most retailers and restaurant operators, you’re always looking for ways to improve sales. Using your POS in marketing is a very effective means of achieving this goal. Let’s take a look at a few ways to do this.
POS data breaches continue to plague the retail and restaurant industries, with hackers perpetrating increasingly sophisticated schemes to access and fraudulently utilize credit card numbers and other information stolen from operators’ systems. Co...
Hobby and craft shops are in many ways the epitome of specialty retailers, providing unique materials and hard-to-find items for a dedicated, loyal, do-it-yourself clientele. But the hominess and deep customer connections that build such a busines...
