News Release – May 17, 2012 – Total Retail Control (TRC), an expert in retail EPOS systems and EPOS software in the Ireland and UK retail markets, is pleased to introduce the Do I Need a New EPOS System? Scorecard. The free EPOS system scorecard will help retailers evaluate their retail business needs to help determine what they should consider in a new EPOS system. Whether retailers are considering purchasing an EPOS system for the first time or upgrading and existing system, the Do I Need a New EPOS System? Scorecard is the perfect tool to allow retailers to get visibility into the key retail business areas so they can determine what they need in an EPOS system to grow their business.

“We want to educate retailers by providing them with tools like the Do I Need a New EPOS System? Scorecard. This scorecard walks the retailer through the five key areas: controlling retail stock, managing retail staff, controlling retail cash, managing retail customers and managing retail suppliers,” says Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC. “It helps retailers assess their current visibility in these critical five areas and determine how important more visibility is to them.”

Peacock continues, “In fully assessing the situation, retailers can gain a clear understanding of what they need to focus on when implementing a new or upgraded EPOS system. A new EPOS system which focuses on the retailer’s specific needs is the most important tool in a retailer’s arsenal to grow their retail business profit.”

Retail businesses in the early stages of considering either purchasing or upgrading an EPOS system can download the scorecard free by visiting TRC Ireland’s Do I Need a New EPOS System? Scorecard or TRC UK’s Do I Need a New EPOS System? Scorecard. You can also contact a TRC retail EPOS expert to help you with your scorecard by email at retail-scorecard@trcepos.ie in Ireland or retailscorecard@trcepos.co.uk in the UK.

Also available from TRC is the 7 Essential Steps to Buying an EPOS System Guide. The free step-by-step guide will walk retailers through the process of evaluating and purchasing an EPOS system for their retail business. Retail businesses taking steps to purchase an EPOS system can download this free, practical guide by visiting TRC Ireland’s 7 Essential Steps to Buying an EPOS System Guide or TRC UK’s 7 Essential Steps to Buying an EPOS System Guide. You can also contact a TRC retail EPOS expert to help you with your 7 steps by email at 7stepsEPOS@trcepos.ie in Ireland or sevenstepsEPOS@trcepos.co.uk in the UK.

About Total Retail Control (TRC)

Retail solutions empowered by TRC deliver the best retail intelligence to grow your retail operation. TRC retail insights help managing retail staff, managing retail suppliers, controlling retail cash, managing retail customers and controlling your retail stock to boost your bottom line.

Total Retail Control (TRC) was launched in 1991 and over the past 21 years, the company has established a reputation for providing excellence in retail and hospitality solutions to a wide variety of clients across Ireland and the UK.

For more information about Total Retail Control, please visit TRC’s Ireland site at www.trcepos.ie or email sales@trcepos.ie or visit TRC’s UK site at www.trcepos.co.uk or email sales@trcepos.co.uk.

News Release – May 3, 2012 -Total Retail Control Ltd. (TRC), an innovative retail solutions expert in the Ireland and UK retail markets, is thrilled to announce the selection of TRC as an authorized LightSpeed EPOS software reseller. A leader in retail EPOS solutions, TRC will be offering LightSpeed’s highly evolved EPOS software which is a robust, fully integrated, inventory-centric retail system that leverages the power of Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad to provide retail tools for the iGeneration. LightSpeed will perfectly complement the retail solutions product suite TRC currently offers.

“LightSpeed’s Show & Tell feature creates an exciting and interactive sales tool to involve customers in product selection and purchase, within the sleek Mac and iPad interfaces. This exceptional shopping experience elevates the sales experience for both the retailer and the customer.” Dax Dasilva, Founder/CEO, Vice President of Development, LightSpeed.

“We are excited to offer LightSpeed to the Ireland and UK markets. The LightSpeed retail system moves seamlessly from front counter, to online… to anywhere customers are – using Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This is a revolutionary all-in-one system for retailers which makes it easier to control inventory and even bring the sale right to the retail customer with LightSpeed Mobile and LightSpeed eCommerce.” says Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC.

Dax Dasilva, Founder, CEO and Vice President of Development, LightSpeed adds, “LightSpeed’s Show & Tell feature creates an exciting and interactive sales tool to involve customers in product selection and purchase, within the sleek Mac and iPad interfaces. This exceptional shopping experience elevates the sales experience for both the retailer and the customer.”

LightSpeed is an innovative complete retail solution which provides retailers with a comprehensive suite of retail tools and sales workflows for iGeneration retailers. LightSpeed products are multi-user, multi-store and extensible through developer API so that software does not limit retail aspirations.

“Providing excellence and innovation in retail solutions to clients across Ireland and the UK is TRC’s ultimate goal. We know the next step for retailers is to implement fresh, next-generation retail solutions like mobile-based EPOS systems, retail staff integrity testing, and an e-receipt solution,” says Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC. “We have added these products to our suite and will continue to hunt down, test and offer the best and most innovative retail tools the world has to offer.”

About Total Retail Control (TRC)

Retail solutions empowered by TRC deliver the best retail intelligence to grow your retail operation. TRC retail insights help managing retail staff, managing retail suppliers, controlling retail cash, managing retail customers and managing your retail stock to boost your bottom line.
Total Retail Control (TRC) was launched in 1991 and over the past 21 years, the company has established a reputation for providing excellence in retail and hospitality solutions to a wide variety of clients across Ireland and the UK.
For more information about Total Retail Control, please visit: www.trcepos.co.uk or email sales@trcepos.co.uk.

About LightSpeed

LightSpeed, led by founder and CEO Dax Dasilva, is committed to its mission of fusing innovation, technology and design to produce the most compelling retail business solution on any platform and help retailers attain their business aspirations.
Founded in 2005 and based in Montreal and Ottawa, the LightSpeed team specializes in building next-generation Point of Sale systems that offer business owners powerful, intuitive retail tools for Mac and iOS.
For more information please visit: www.lightspeedretail.com.

News Release – Dublin – April 19, 2012 – Total Retail Control (TRC), an innovative retail EPOS leader in the Ireland and UK retail markets, is excited to announce the availability of the 7 Essential Steps to Buying an EPOS System Guide. The free step-by-step guide will walk retailers through the process of evaluating and purchasing an EPOS system for their retail business.

“At TRC, we want to provide retailers with the tools they need to grow their retail business. The 7 Essential Steps to Buying an EPOS System Guide is a critical tool to help retailers when they are making decisions about investing in a point of sale system,” says Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC. “It is a simple to use guide that will show retailers what they need to do and what questions they need to ask to ensure that their EPOS system investment drives revenue to their business.”

“At TRC, we want to provide retailers with the tools they need to grow their retail business. The 7 Essential Steps to Buying an EPOS System Guide is a critical tool to help retailers when they are making decisions about investing in a point of sale system,” says Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC. “It is a simple to use guide that will show retailers what they need to do and what questions they need to ask to ensure that their EPOS system investment drives revenue to their business.”

The 7 Essentials Steps to Buying an EPOS System Guide addresses some of the most common questions retailers may have while considering purchasing a new EPOS system or replacing an existing EPOS system:

• What should I expect during the EPOS purchase process?
• What steps do I need to take to evaluate and purchase an EPOS system?
• What questions should I ask when considering an EPOS system?
• Who should I consult with on an EPOS system purchase?
• How do I determine which EPOS system is right for my retail business?

Retail businesses considering the purchase of an EPOS system can download this free, practical guide by visiting TRC’s 7 Essential Steps to Buying an EPOS System download page. You can also contact a TRC retail EPOS expert to help you with your 7 steps by email at sevenstepsEPOS@trcepos.co.uk.

About Total Retail Control (TRC)

Retail solutions empowered by TRC deliver the best retail intelligence to grow your retail operation. TRC retail insights help managing retail staff, managing retail suppliers, controlling retail cash, managing retail customers and controlling your retail stock to boost your bottom line.

Total Retail Control (TRC) was launched in 1991 and over the past 21 years, the company has established a reputation for providing excellence in retail and hospitality solutions to a wide variety of clients across Ireland and the UK.

For more information about Total Retail Control, please visit: www.trcepos.co.uk or email sales@trcepos.co.uk.

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Trying to find out how much an EPOS system cost can be an ordeal. The majority of electronic point of sale suppliers feel, for some reason, that the customer needs to be given the sale spiel before they are ready to see the price. This ends up as a lose-lose situation for both the potential customer and the supplier. The supplier feels he has a tyre-kicker when the customer walks away. The customer feels cheated because they had to listen to a spiel without knowing if the product or service was within their budget.

Conventional thinking, stemming from the cash register days, was that the supplier needed to educate the customer and carry out a return on investment exercise. They would explain all the bells and whistles first, with the belief that the customer would run a mile if they told them the price then if they were still interested explained the product.

Types of Electronic Point of Sale Systems – High-End or Low Cost?

Today the choice of electronic point of sale (EPOS) products and companies is wide and varied.

On one end of the spectrum are large, multi-national electronic point of sales companies like Torex, IBM, Fujitsu, and NCR. These companies typically target the 100+ store retailers and a system rollout can be measured in the hundreds of thousands of pounds

The other end is the entry level point of sale system which can start at £1300 for a single electronic point of sale unit. An important note is that these are not PC-based and are the 2012 version of the traditional electronic cash register. Although basic enough in features, they can and do suffice in a single outlet where cash reconciliation is the most sophisticated feature required. You will see these in a single bar, coffee shop or in a simple retail environment.

Obviously, the EPOS offerings at different ends of the spectrum have vastly different options, quality, service and different target markets. This is reflected in the pricing and also reflected in what the solutions can achieve. The higher-end companies tend to approach the sales process from a consultative angle. They will investigate the customer’s business needs which they then match to the best EPOS solution based on those needs. The lower priced offerings purchase decisions are more apt to be based on price and also tend to rely on the customer to know the products features and benefits for themselves. The lower margin for the lower priced supplier does not afford them the ability to employ solution consultants and adopt that kind of sales methodology.

Point of Sale Software Pricing

Point of sale software comes in many flavours.

At one end, there is shareware and a recent entry to this low cost group is downloadable software which is paid for in advance on the net. These products can be sourced for as little as £150 per system. These software products are more suited to a small retailer who is also an IT hobbyist. Low on personal tech-support and hands-on installation services, some advanced IT skills are a requirement for this group.

There also exists the small 4-10 man company that has been authoring EPOS software for years. This group, however, is shrinking, as the costs of keeping up with the bigger players are proving prohibitive; in the world of cars think of Morgan, TVR, Noble and DeLorean. E-receipts, electronic funds transfer (EFT), loyalty programs, web store integration, etc. mean that, while most of this group are hanging on to their legacy clients for now, they realise that it is cost prohibitive to rewrite their products to interface with these new technologies. In all probability, the next time their clients go to market, they will be looking for systems that seamlessly integrate with the wider world and ever rapidly changing technologies.

Today’s point of sale software is like most mature software markets. There used to be lots of flavours but now there is a core of global players whom have the size and budgets to produce excellent software at competitive prices. An EPOS software license is going to average £400 with a back office license costing an average of £1250.

The bigger 100+ store rollouts can tend to get surprisingly good value for each of the licenses but the will require far more days than a smaller retailer for professional services including project management and training.

Retail Specialty, Vertical Market or Generic EPOS Software

Each vertical market (department store, garden centre, supermarket, off license, furniture store, etc.) can rightly claim that their industry has idiosyncrasies that are unique to them and that their EPOS software of choice should also be unique to their vertical market. This was certainly the case up until the last five years. Today, the best-of-breed global retail EPOS solutions have the breadth to cover most retail verticals. Therefore, it is not uncommon to see the top software products in a wide variety of retail outlets. This is due to the flexibility of the top products. They are designed so that the user can ultimately decide the process flow and not be straight jacketed into a structured workflow.

How Your Business Leverages Your Point of Sale Software will Impact the Value and the Price

Today, electronic point of sale software systems have a variety of uses:

• Point of sale calculator,
• Stock control package,
• VAT and debtors system,
• Customer relationship management (CRM )systems,
• Retail reporting system for management,
• Security system for staff,
• Promotions system for products,
• Labeling system and mini signage system,
• Deposit system,
• Delivery tracking system,
• Quotation system,
• Ticketing system.

Although all of the top EPOS products have a vast array of features, most leading edge products are also open via an application programing interface (API). This enables easy and robust interfaces to best in class add-ons. For example, a retailer may be using a large amount of spreadsheet data to calculate what their budgets are and what each buyer can spend on a certain range of products. A leading edge product would allow a best-of-breed open-to-buy product to seamlessly dovetail with the EPOS data so the need for maintaining error prone spreadsheets would not be necessary.

Product roadmaps are also offered by the best-of-breed software supplier. These roadmaps educate the customer as to what is coming down the tracks. Will the EPOS product integrate with Facebook or run on my iPad?

Again, the law of natural selection is withering the hundreds of EPOS systems down to the best-in-class global players. These companies invest a high percentage of their profits into making sure that their EPOS system forms a sound foundation to plug into various other products like business intelligence, e-receipts and web stores.

Retail EPOS Maintenance & Support Services Pricing

The options and uses of an electronic point of sale system are nearly endless in the hands of inventive users who can see the value. To fully leverage a point of sale software to grow your business, your staff needs to have access to reliable retail maintenance services for the pos hardware and software.

Additionally, EPOS software training for staff and pos installation is essential to leverage the full potential of the systems.

These services can range from £350 to £900 depending on the how qualified and experienced the trainer/ installer is.

The Truth about EPOS System Pricing

The truth about buying an EPOS system is that they cost thousands of pounds. As a rule of thumb, a customer should expect to pay between £3400- £4000 per lane for a high quality product that will serve them well. Choosing the wrong electronic point of sale system could cost many times that amount if it does not meet the specific requirements of the business. In fact, it could turn into a liability that has very expensive and long-term effects.

As with all purchases, measure twice and cut once. Make sure you investigate the product and the company properly. Ask some questions:

What EPOS software do you need?

What EPOS software will you use and fully leverage? Marketing, reporting, inventory, etc.

What are your EPOS maintenance, support and training requirements?

Take the time to really understand how this purchase is going to add to your bottom line. And if it doesn’t then don’t buy it.

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Gentles brings considerable experience to this role, having worked with large and complex customers and retail epos systems in his former capacity. Gentles has expertise managing retail suppliers, managing retail customers and managing retail staff at an executive level and his participation on the management team will provide useful perspective and insight to help grow TRC’s business.

“I am extremely delighted that Rob has joined our team as Managing Director in the UK, and in particular that I will now be working with him directly,” said Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC Group. “In his new role, I have no doubt that Rob will infuse our UK operation with a sense of momentum and opportunity so that more UK retailers can benefit from our myriad of products and services.”

Prior to his work at TRC, Gentles served as Sales Director at G7 Computer Services Ltd., and before that, as Prestige Dealer Account Manager at Tracker, UK.

“I am pleased to be representing the needs and interests of TRC clients in the UK and working in this new position for a company that boasts a reputation for excellence in retail solutions and point of sale software,” said Rob Gentles. “As TRC continues to expand and grow, I have full confidence that we will maintain the high standards for which we are already known.”

About Total Retail Control (TRC)

EPOS solutions empowered by a TRC EPOS system delivers the best retail intelligence to grow your retail operation. TRC retail insights help managing retail staff, managing retail suppliers, controlling retail cash, managing retail customers and managing your retail stock to boost your bottom line.

Does that seem like a funny question? How could the best member of your staff not be honest?

We constantly come across incidences of dishonesty from our clients’ staff. Staff dishonesty can range from cash theft to stock theft to sweet deals for friends like only ringing through one item when two were taken, etc.

Recently, in an ever more competitive and margin-reducing world, our customers/retailers posed this question to us:

Is there a retail system out there that will help me in only recruiting honest staff members?

Retailers said: Our EPOS system is effective at identifying that we have an issue with managing retail staff bevaviour; through cash and stock discrepancies and eroding margins. Also, through point of sale software, we can narrow it down and sometimes identify the specific dishonest staff member. But then, we have to manage them out using our human resources skills. The amount of time, money and effort it takes to dismiss a dishonest staff member makes it one of the most emotional and financially costly and painful tasks associated with running a retail business. Is there a retail system out there that will help me in only recruiting honest staff members?

Staff Theft Results in More than Monetary Loss

Retailers tend to only measure the damage of dishonesty in employees in terms of monetary loss (cash or stock). There are actually equally damaging repercussions on other aspects of the retail business:
1) the impact on your other (honest) staff members and
2) the impact on your business’customer service levels.

Employee Theft: Impact on Other Staff Members

First, retailers must consider the impact on their team – the honest members of your staff. Working with a dishonest person is a negative experience.Not only is a dishonest person not a team player, but he can cause untold damage to the team spirit and often causing dissention among the ranks.

Employee Theft: Impact on Other Customer Service

Perhaps the most damaging consequence of retail theft on the retail business is the quality of customer service that they give to your customers. If your dishonest employee is more focused on stuffing their own pockets than filling your till, how much customer service do you think they will offer?

The ability to turn a loyal customer into a distant memory can rest on how a return or stock enquiry is handled, or in attitude: a lack of a smile or the absence of good manners like saying “please” and “thank you”. In talking to retailers after they had found out they had an employee theft problem, we found that they often discover that they already had performance concerns with that employee in a number of other areas.

Hiring Honest Employees with Integrity Testing

Well, we scoured the globe looking for a retail human resources tool that can solve this problem for retailers and discovered an Israeli company that has pioneered the art of integrity testing.

A simple 20-minute test in front of a PC measures the integrity of a prospective staff member so retailers can be armed with this crucial information before hiring. Anyone reading this might be cynical. I certainly was. But after spending months looking at hard empirical evidence and case studies of retailers globally, the bottom line is that this tool dramatically reduces the chances of letting a fox into your hen house.

To find out more about this revolutionary product, check out Integrity Testing – Stop Employee Theft with Savvy Integrity. Or, contact us and ask us about integrity testing.

HRVision Ltd., an innovative next generation employee assessment solutions provider is pleased to announce the appointment of Total Retail Control Ltd. as their distributor for the Ireland and UK retail market. A leader in retail epos solutions, TRC will be offering HRVision’s highly accurate and cost effective integrity testing software, SavvyIntegrity to complement the TRC ltd. current retail solutions product suite.

“In the retail segment where employee theft is an especially crucial issue, TRC recognizes the need to offer our clients innovative, forward looking technologies that can effectively aid retailers in identifying dishonest candidates before they become employees,” says Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC.

SavvyIntegrity is HRVision’s revolutionary SaaS tool for the recruiting or loss-prevention division of an organization. It has high sensitivity to theft and fraud and lets recruiters identify potentially dishonest candidates before they become employees. Utilizing proven and patented technology, the SavvyIntegrity system extends recruiters’ ability to immediately identify the level of integrity of candidates.

“Having established a reputation for providing excellence in retail and hospitality solutions to a wide variety of clients across Ireland and the UK, TRC is keen on delivering the most advanced retail intelligence solutions to solve real-world retail challenges,” says Gavin Peacock, CEO, TRC. “As a comprehensive retail solutions provider, we are pleased to partner with a company known around the globe for their highly predictive tools in the field of employee assessment”.

Sandy Erez, Director of Business Development, HRVision adds, “TRC customers can now accurately screen potential candidates without the cost and complexity associated with lengthy intensive screening. The 20-minute web-based test can be a game changer for TRC’s wide base of client retailers, who are unaware that such technologies exist. Retailers would be surprised to know that these technologies are user friendly and affordable.”

About Total Retail Control (TRC)

Retail solutions empowered by TRC deliver the best retail intelligence to grow your retail operation. TRC retail insights help managing retail staff, managing retail suppliers, controlling retail cash, managing retail customers and managing your retail stock to boost your bottom line.
Total Retail Control (TRC) was launched in 1991 and over the past 21 years, the company has established a reputation for providing excellence in retail and hospitality solutions to a wide variety of clients across Ireland and the UK.
For more information about Total Retail Control, please visit: www.trcepos.co.uk or email sales@trcepos.co.uk.

About HRVision

Established in 1997, HRVision, is a leading provider of highly sophisticated employee assessment solutions software for organizations seeking a highly accurate and cost effective recruitment solutions suitable to the workplace environment and its diversity demands.
Seeking to address key challenges faced by organizations to perform cost effective but highly qualified mass recruitment, HRVision has created a suite of empiric employee assessment software solutions (Savvy Recruiter, SavvyIntegrity, SavvyExpert, SavvyCompetencies) that revolutionizes the way recruitment is done. Empowered by this breakthrough technology that hit the market in 2005, the HRVision solution has since proven its ability to significantly improve performance and reduce turnover for organizations worldwide.
Headquartered in Israel, HRVision has sold over 500,000 SavvyRecruiter Assessment and Integrity software tests worldwide, with sales channels in Brazil, UK, Holland, South Africa Israel, and Mexico. Available in 9 languages, HRVision’s fully integrated, internet-based system utilizes sophisticated technology on a user friendly, multimedia testing and reporting platform making it the most advanced employee assessment system in the world
For more information please visit: www.hrvision.com.

The TRC team just returned from the recent National Retail Federation show in New York City. Needless to say, it was jam-packed with retail industry thought leadership and best practices, emerging technology and exciting networking opportunities.

TRC partner, Retail Pro, showcased their new Prism platform, which is sure to have impact in the retail sector. Torex unveiled a new HP small tablet and a select few participants were given a sneak preview of their new cloud-based point-of-sale initiative. Very cool!

More than any other message, the NRF show drove home the notion that emerging technology is going to drive business in the retail sector, particularly in 2012.

With this theme in mind, TRC met with industry leaders about:

• A new mobile POS application for the iPhone or Android device that facilitates self-checkout. While this technology is in its infancy, it is a sexy, cutting-edge approach to retail transactions.
• Workforce management tools for the 1-100 store retailer, with technology that is not too overhead rich. Our discussions were very promising and we expect to announce a new partner in this field very shortly.
• The emergence of affordable and accessible E-labels to the retail market. Any retailer selling technology or high-end product will want to learn about the flexibility and agility of E-labels.
• People counting and video analytics. While TRC is already invested in these tools, there are very exciting new developments taking place in this space. We observed a video tool that can gage an individual’s mood, age and gender!

Arguably, one of the greatest highlights was a keynote address by President Bill Clinton who spoke about Embracing Our Common Humanity.

The NRF show was a great opportunity to survey the retail landscape so that we can plan strategically for the coming year.

Don’t forget to check out our latest downloads to show you how today’s cutting-edge retail technologies can help your business: Managing Your Retail Staff Download, Controlling Your Retail Stock Download, Managing Your Retail Customers Download, Controlling Your Retail Cash Download, Managing Your Retail Suppliers Download, and Retail Intelligence Download.

Frustrating, isn’t it?

By contrast, a bright, clear day with an unmistakable, 360-degree view of the road ahead, and a vehicle that is well tuned and humming, is a pleasure. You can anticipate potholes and take corrective action; you can chart your course preemptively and strategically; you don’t have to waste time and resources on unnecessary mishaps.

Which car do you prefer?

The retail world is not much different. In times of prosperity, retailers thrive and the need for actionable metrics is often ignored. People hum along; not paying much attention to their important key performance indicators money is flowing.

But times have changed. The financial climate is daunting. And retailers have been left without any windscreen washer bottle fluid.

The typical retailer cannot see the road ahead; without a more sophisticated picture of what is going on, he will likely crash.

All retailers use a retail EPOS system of some sort. Most stores are equipped with some standard retail reporting tools. And most of these retail solutions manage the transaction process adequately. Scanning, receipts, cash balances, etc. are tallied and tracked to the extent required.

But this process is flat, and the data it gleans is one-dimensional.

Retailers need rich and varied retail intelligence in a useable, actionable format, available in real-time to the right people, for corrective action to be taken.

TRC and Swift Retail Intelligence can provide this information.

Swift Retail Intelligence offers:

• A 360-degree retail insights perspective to all retailers.
• Seamless integration with retail EPOS software and other data sources (spreadsheets, CRM, accounting, etc.) systems.
• Succinct, consolidated, informative retail reporting, on-demand or at a scheduled time, via email, web page or to any mobile device.

This is a revolutionary development in the retail industry. To this point, there has been a dramatic absence of capability relative to analytics, forecasting and visibility. Most existing front-end retail EPOS solutions provide flat, limited data that simply doesn’t arm retailers with the retail insights they need to drive strategic decision-making.

Most retail EPOS systems do not generate data that helps retailers to:

Make a decision as to the allocated shelf space to various departments
Match staff ROTA’s with the EPOS data to provide optimum staffing
Adjust pricing of a product based on performance

These limitations hold retailers back and stifle future growth. A retail intelligence product like Swift is an easy add-on that helps to drive business and fill the gaps above.

By plugging into a retail intelligence solution, retailers ultimately prolong the useable life of their retail EPOS system and save thousands in capital spend.

Don’t drive blindly. Download your free Retail Intelligence Report to get a taste of the power that your clear retail intelligence windscreen can unleash to drive your strategic decision-making.