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Metro Forum 2019 – Awards Shortlist Confirmed!
We are delighted to confirm the shortlist for this year’s Metro Awards, to be held on the 27th June at Castle Malwood. This year's judging panel, consisting of industry experts Phil Chapman (ITIM), Dominic Prendergast (OSS RETAIL), Phillip Adcock (SBXL) and David Goon...
Speakers confirmed for Metro Forum 2019
With more than 100 leading brands and retailers already registered to attend, we are delighted to confirm some of our guest speakers presenting at this years forum, with more to be announced shortly. An action-packed day will see presentations from these and other...
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...
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...
DFS selects Metro to enhance Team Communications, Engagement, Task Management and Compliance.
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 Comms and Process modules enable DFS to manage Team...
RMS Blog
Is 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...
Personal 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...
Intelligent 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...
What are the compelling reasons to move to Metro ?
Well, one of the big factors is cost - not 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, but...
What keeps metro on the top spot for branch control and communication?
Well, one viewpoint is the care we put into our customers - no random email surveys or the occasional telephone call here, each customer is allocated their own Team Metro personnel - real people who genuinely care, who are employed just to ensure your businesses gets...
What’s the secret?!
So why is Metro by far the most popular branch management solution worldwide? Is it because RMS was the first to offer this much functionality from a single technology instance, or is there some 'secret sauce’ that makes it the first choice for advanced, sophisticated...
Health campaign hits 99% of top confectionery lines.
That’s the news coming out from BetterRetailing.com this week as Public Health England launches its campaign to limit children’s snacks to 100 calories. When applied to the top 25 lines in crisps, chocolate blocks, chocolate bars and sugar confectionery categories,...
Christmas – Ho! Ho! Ho!
Christmas is when shoppers tend to spend that little bit more – many will plan their Christmas food shopping expedition down to the last nibble and although stores generally close for only one day, you would think they were closing for a month or more if you stood and...
Black Friday to Black Fridays.
Everyone’s shouting about Black Friday, but really, when is it? Not long ago, shoppers could simply pencil in one Friday a year and get all their Christmas shopping done online in one swoop, but those ever-creative retailers with their Bricks, Clicks and...
Moving monolithic technology suites.
I had the most terrific day yesterday (Tuesday 31st October) at Microsoft Future Decoded, held at ExCel, London. It was great to hear from so many speakers their visions for the digital business of tomorrow, and gain valuable insight and advice. In fact, the vision...
Unified Comms – It’ll save you more than you think.
Dropping into my local supermarket this weekend it was hard not to notice all the Fireworks, Pumpkins and Tins of Chocolates taking over the first aisle...it will be the turn of Beer, Prosecco and bumper bags of mixed nuts next! It was also hard not to notice the...