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RMS to attend the Retail Technology Show – 26-27 April 2022, Olympia, London
Retail Technology Show is the platform for suppliers of innovative solutions that can enable retailers to run their business more effectively, more efficiently and more profitably, resulting in seamless multichannel operations and enhanced customer experience. Aimed...
RMS Introduces Metro Portal
RMS always aims to keep our customers up to date on the latest and greatest coming to our Metro Solutions when it comes to communication. With the introduction of Metro Portal, we take that communication a step further by giving our customers a platform that not only...
Metro Live 2021 Update
With less than four weeks to go until Metro Live, we're excited to share a bit of what to expect on Thursday, 30th September. Kicking off at 10 am, we're going to be looking at a range of topics and solutions that we are sure you will find interesting. With expert...
Metro Live 2021…
Full details on the Metro Live event, including the agenda, how to register, and be part of our limited live audience will be coming very soon
Metro News – Spring 2021
Inside this edition: Team Life During Covid Marketing Metro Service News Product Updates • Metro Time (T&A soft clock – Web and App versions) • New Employee Satisfaction Survey features • Enhanced User-Based Audiences • Messaging Enhancements • New Store Visits...
RMS Blog
Relevance Fatigue
We all suffer from it. Being deluged in 'misinformation' from a source that is so arrogant and uncaring, they scatter so much of what they perceive as vital information into my email, WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook, Instagram etc. that they make everything irrelevant – even...
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still…
It's almost December, and as always, budgets are coming soon. Now is the time when many businesses reflect on the year to date whilst simultaneously putting months of planning and preparation into play to ensure this year's "golden quarter" really delivers the...
Act in haste, repent at leisure…
Act in haste, repent at leisure happens to be one of the best pieces of advice I have ever received and has served me well over the years, stopping me from making quite a few unnecessary and potentially costly mistakes. Believed to have been adapted from the...
Why Metro is the first choice digital workplace for retail, hospitality and healthcare.
Whether you're a small boutique business with a handful of employees or a global giant with thousands of co-workers worldwide, there are fundamental elements of the employee experience that every distributed business must address to succeed. But, as scale and...
Re-energising the shelf edge
Already responsible for benefiting many retailers with increased revenues and profitability, Metro Print Controller makes it simple to bring ‘tickets that sell’ to the shelf edge faster and more cost-effectively than ever before…
Marketing Metro During Covid
Rob Morgan: There is no doubt that lockdown brought with it many new challenges and required new communication and engagement strategies. Especially for those companies who found themselves suddenly working remotely. The RMS team are always asking, "What does this...
RMS Team Life During Covid
Karen Dyke: If someone said to be me back in March 2020 that we would still be in lockdown a year later, I wouldn't have believed them - but here we are, and what a year it has been! For RMS, in some ways, it has been business as usual. We have been blessed to be able...
A Year on in a New World…
As we entered 2020, with Brexit finally done and a new future ahead of us, as an economy there were green shoots of recovery and signs of growth - the media coverage of the high street however was all doom and gloom. We had all heard that Retail was on the brink of...
Communication – Can You Hear Me?
For many years I have debated the importance of communication… from a mainframe ‘point-to-point’ messaging system to the wonders of more recent communication tools, such as Teams and Zoom. In fact, in 2021, it’s fair to say we've all become communication LUNATICS! I...
ReThink Productivity Podcast featuring Karen Dyke
Tune in here to hear Karen Dyke, CEO at RMS share how we have been helping the sudden switch to remote working, and the benefits of the Metro roadmap.
Is your shopper marketing ready for the ‘retail of tomorrow’?
With England now in its second lockdown, and other parts of the UK coming out of local restrictions, it’s really not easy keeping up with how things are changing and in turn keeping retail teams up to speed with new regulations and informed as to what these changes...