General Retail

It is all about having the right items on sale and then clearing as many as possible before the season finishes and good labelling is essential especially on outdoor ranges. The solution includes product maintenance via spreadsheets, ordering and receiving of goods, pricing, labelling and counting. Large enquiries and reporting pack. The use of promotions to encourage sales and clear stock is a vital tool as is customer loyalty. The real time data gives you time to respond to changes in sales trend and therefore the best return off a reduced working stock level.

Case Studies

These are some of our General Retail users and their stories

Trelawney Garden Centre

The Epos Systems for General Retail ............Profitable Epos made simple

See your profits grow by using product promotions and managing waste, a seasonal business can still be a profitable business. Most retail outlets need to be in stock of fast sellers and clear the stock of slow sellers before the season ends. Serving speed at the tills, easy promotions and sales statistics all improves buying and reduces stock. If you can measure, it you can manage it. Benefits saves time reduces costs - increase sales increase profit

Touch Tills

Touch tills make the introduction of epos easy with fast product selection using barcode scanning or touch buttons. The layout can be mapped out to suit the the season and fast movers get a button each or pictures where an has many options or is valuable.

Credit Cards

Pretty much essential now to have your chip and pin credit cards solution integrated with your till solution. Quicker and less equipment eliminating differences occuring between sale total and tendered amount.

Promotions

With a seasonal business you dont want stock hanging around so "buy one get one free" and many other promotions help clear the stock in time as well as being an incentive for increase basket spend.

Product Maintenance

It is vital to make sure products are added to the system with the right barcodes, prices and kept updated with supplier’s changes. To achieve the required margin the system will calculate a suggested sell price and all stock and price changes are audited by date and operator, which can be reviewed later. The tills are immediately informed of new products and price changes.

Labels

Your labelling will have a key impact on performance using supplier barcodes saves time and cost applying price gun labels but does need one shelf edge label. Top up labelling can be done inhouse for any item arriving unlabelled and this includes pictures and colour too.

Stock Control

The stock is reduced after each sale immediately and as all the other office routines do the same then you can rely on your stock balance for making better decisions. A rolling stock take confirms this figure and identifies any theft.

Reporting

Updating sales from the till is on a real time basis. Screen and fixed reporting is available all the time. You would be surprised how helpful it is to know your best sellers right now. Export figures to spreadsheets just makes this data even more manageable.