Asking the Expert: Dave Mayer, Account Manager, Retail Tech What do you find is the biggest trend with point of sale equipment in the Hospitality market today? Testing iPads at the tables. Recently, Buffalo Wild Wings trialed about 15 iPads for 60 tables at their North Oak Store in Minnesota. After the demo, the store [...]
Epson is Named Best Channel Vendor for the Fourth Year in a Row in Business Solutions magazine’s Annual Survey
Today Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added point of sale (POS) solutions, announced that it was named Best Channel Vendor for the fourth year in a row in Business Solutions Magazine’s 4th Annual Best Channel Vendors Survey published in the January 2012 issue. From mid-September through early October 2011, Business Solutions Magazine collected [...]
Customer Checkout Getting Easier, Faster, Smarter with IBM Retail Systems
ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced retail technology aimed at empowering “bricks-and-mortar” retailers to claim their place at the center of the newest multichannel shopping trends. The technology is part of a growing number of IBM Smarter Commerce offerings designed to enable consumers to do inside a store anything [...]
EPSON Introduces TM-H2000 Compact Multifunction Printer
For Retailers Requiring High Speed Receipt Printing and Check Processing NRF 101st Annual Convention & Expo:Epson America, Inc. NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Annual Convention and Expo, Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added point of sale (POS) solutions, introduced its compact TM-H2000 multifunction POS printer, designed for retailers who [...]
Think Local, Act Local. What About the POS?
Written by: Samantha Noble, Marketing Manager A retailers’ strategy is anything but stagnant. Operators are continuously looking for new ways to change and improve their processes. Especially right now, organizations are asking themselves a number of questions regarding the POS environment. Do we allocate our entire budget toward mobile technology? Do we wait to see [...]
On Tap at “The Big Show” NRF 2012
Samantha Noble, Marketing Manager We will be there! Retail Tech is hitting both coasts in January; from the DQ show in San Diego to New York for NRF’s Big Show. We are excited to start the New Year off with a bang! Last year, having never experienced NRF, I was blown away by the number [...]
Is it the Point of Sale?
Written by: Samantha Noble, Marketing Manager Point of sale, Point of purchase, POS, cash register, checkout, till, cash wrap – the names are endless. All these are surely synonyms, but do they really mean the same thing? I would argue that each of these names have a slightly different connotation. To me, a point of [...]
IBM Makes Customer Checkout Faster, Easier, Smarter
ARMONK, NEW YORK, November 4, 2011 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced retail technology that allows stores to offer targeted third-party products and services to consumers at checkout, and add future services with close to “plug-and-play” simplicity. Essentially, retailers will have a quick and easy way to extend the traditional point-of-sale aisle to a revenue-generating [...]
A Tablet Made for Hard Use: Point of Sale Blog
Love me Some Apple(s) I am all about Apple products. I have an iPhone, iPod, and hope to get my pretty little hands on an iPad for Christmas. Does this mean I think Apple consumables are perfect for every application? Of course not. A coffee maker may be the ideal product for your morning cup [...]