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100+ leading brands expected at Metro Forum 2019
These are just some of the leading brands attending Metro Forum 2019, Thursday 27th June, Castle Malwood, Hampshire... Metro Forum 2019 is the 'must attend' event for all retail, hospitality and healthcare professionals to exchange ideas, hear industry analysis and...
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10 Great Reasons to attend Metro Forum 2019
When it comes to spending time and money on events, we understand the buck stops with you or your Boss – so if you or the person above needs a few compelling reasons as to why you (and members of your team) should attend this year's Metro Forum, here they are: Network...
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Press Release: DFS selects Metro to enhance Team Communications, Engagement, Task Management and Compliance.
22nd May 2019, Castle Malwood, Minstead – Hampshire. Retail Manager Solutions is delighted to announce that DFS, the number one sofa specialist in Europe, has chosen Metro to enhance its Team Communications, Engagement, Task Management and Compliance. Metro‘s Unified...
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2019 Metro User Forum and Awards Event
Join us for this year's Metro forum where without a doubt we have the best customer presentations, keynote speakers and interactive sessions planned for what is going to be our biggest and best forum ever! Following an action-packed day of industry analysis, insight...
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RMS to attend RetailEXPO 2019, 1st and 2nd May, Olympia, London
RMS are delighted to be exhibiting at RetailEXPO 2019 to be held in the Grand Hall at Olympia London on 1st & 2nd of May 2019. RetailEXPO is the must-attend event for all retail and hospitality organisations looking for the right tools, solutions, innovations and...
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List allergens to save lives.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has proposed changes so all shops that prepare and sell packaged food on-site should list all ingredients and highlight major allergens to avoid deaths. This follows the tragic deaths of Celia Marsh in 2018 and 15-year-old Natasha...
read moreHow much time and money do companies waste on email?
The fact is our reliance on email has got out of hand and there’s absolutely no reason for it; email is no longer the most effective way to communicate, engage or collaborate with your workforce. According to various internet sources (just google it!) the average...
read moreRetail Reinvention
According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 93,000 fewer jobs in retail during 2018, and that trend looks to continue as the prediction made by the British Retail Consortium in 2016 starts to look increasingly accurate. The BRC said then that almost a...
read moreHow to turn Black Friday into a Golden Quarter!
Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving when Americans traditionally start their Christmas shopping) and Cyber Monday have become growing phenomenon’s for UK shoppers seeking a bargain on their Christmas shopping. For retailers, the build-up to this event, along with...
read moreMaximising the AI opportunity
This week we had the opportunity to attend Microsoft Future Decoded 2018 and have come away with a mind-blowing view of the future. With incredible first-hand insights into technology concepts such as Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge, as well as emerging...
read moreWhat are you budgeting for 2019?
In the comparative calm before the madness of Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas and the New Year kicks in, this is the time where that other great annual tradition starts to take place - Planning, Forecasting and the setting of Budgets for the year ahead. Perhaps...
read moreLocal labelling Imperatives
Reading the sad events that unfolded recently due to an incorrectly labelled baguette, whilst also hearing of another death due to an allergic reaction, one cannot help think with all the technology available how these tragic events could have been avoided. Obviously,...
read moreIs your organisation’s efficiency clogged up with Toxic Technology?
Toxic technology - It's nobody's fault but the inevitability of developing and purchasing individual applications to solve single problems. In isolation this can work fine, automating processes and bringing productivity gains to the individuals utilising the...
read morePersonal Productivity Tools
People like to dabble around in the world of personal productivity tools - Word or Pages instead of a typewriter, Excel or Sheets instead of a calculator and PowerPoint or Keynote instead of overhead slides. And just like their predecessors they are not easily...
read moreIntelligent pricing could help to eliminate waste from luxury brands
I read an interesting post this morning on the Retail Technology Review website on the back of recent news that luxury brands have destroyed millions of pounds worth of unsold merchandise to avoid their products falling into the wrong hands and being sold on the "grey...
read moreSo what are the compelling reasons to move to metro ?
Well, one of the big factors is cost - not just cost to purchase, but the cost savings to the organisation of getting rid of dozens of other software products that are superseded by metro. The cost of keeping multiple software applications running is often overlooked,...
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