Category: Mobile POS
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Four essential queue busting strategies for Easter weekend
Just a few days remain until the Easter weekend – one of the biggest spikes in the retail calendar. The Easter egg market alone is worth £365 million, while many consumers use the public holidays as a time to shop. In fact, according to Experian FootFall, European consumer activity often increases ahead of the weekend…
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How can your mobile strategy stay ahead of the retail curve?
Mobile, mobile, mobile. It’s dominated retail discussions over the past 12 months, yet knowledge of how consumers use this technology – and how businesses should be incorporating it into their strategies – still feels as though it’s in its infancy. If anything, shoppers are ahead of the curve, quite frequently using their own devices in…
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Mobile POS Coming to Forefront
Globally retail stores are beefing up their sales capabilities ditching the old-fashioned point of sale machines and having salespeople — and even shoppers themselves — ring up sales on smartphones and tablet computers. Barneys New York, a luxury retailer, this year plans to use iPads or iPod Touch devices for credit and debit card purchases…
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Specialty Retailers turn Customer Centric and Profitable with Mobility
The hype-to-reality transition of mobility in retail has been the fastest in the recent times. Ever since Apple started using mobile devices in their stores, which was not too long ago, retailers started taking notice. Today retailers expect the same level of customer experience that one would experience in an Apple store. Retail Applications like…
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Mobility enhancing Retail Customer centricity
Mobile device multiplication among store associates, floor managers, back office and supply chain workers — and, perhaps most importantly, customers — has accelerated rapidly. For forward looking retailers who are focused on customer centricity, mobile tech integration has become the propelling force. Extension of enterprise applications to mobile devices is helping retailers achieve timely data…
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Mobile POS – The New Point of Service
iVend Mobile POS, is one of the latest innovations from CitiXsys and forms an important part of the iVend Retail Management Suite. Built to operate on iOS devices and Andriod tablets, iVend Mobile POS suites the retail strategy of retail leaders who adopt innovative retail technologies to make their customers happy. As an application, iVend…
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Retailing to e-tailing
Retailing has a long history, dating back to medieval traders and merchants. Since hundreds of years, retailers existed in defined geographies, with limited access to customer needs & their shopping behavior with merchandise often limited to a single product category. All of that changed with the industrial revolution. With average incomes rising, markets emerged at…
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Mobile Queue Busting: For Better Customer Experience
Even if you are confident that your latest marketing campaign has brought in a variety of new business, it will fail if your customers have a bad experience or simply cannot get the help that they desire. Because of this, it is imperative that you implement a system that is simple to set up and…
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Mobile POS as a Customer service opportunity
Whether or not you know it, you have used a Mobile POS system and it has made your experience at a retailer much better. As far as customer service is concerned, a Mobile POS system puts the store at a customer service representative’s hands, which allows them to answer questions, look up prices, access inventory…
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The roaming checkout –Why mobility is the new imperative for Retail?
Today’s tech savvy shoppers are adopting new mobile technologies at a record-setting pace. The use of wireless devices is multiplying exponentially, with countless app stores and applications springing up to meet the demand. As customers use Internet-enabled technology to accomplish even more of what they do, these applications and devices have become increasingly personal, anticipating…