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Keynote speakers confirmed for Metro Forum 2022
One Stop, The Co-operative, Dunelm, Greene King, Caffè Nero, Card Factory, Halfords, Peacocks, and The Entertainer are just some of the leading retail and hospitality brands attending Metro Forum 2022 on Thursday 14th July, where we are delighted to confirm this...
Three reasons to attend Metro Forum 2022
Metro Forum is back this year after a two-year break due to Covid, and much like the world around us, things have changed...here are three great reasons to attend this year's event on Thursday 14th July 2022. 1. For you, by you. We are delighted that our...
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
RMS Blog
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...
What are you barking about?
At last year’s RMS Retail Forum, I remembered listening aghast to an inspirational presentation by one of our guest speakers, Phillip Adcock – The ‘go-to’ guy for science-based customer insights - and suddenly realised just how little I truly understood about how...
DIGITIZING TIME – who remembers clocking in with their timecard?!
I remember, many years ago, in my first job in Retail, the timecard! Standing patiently in a queue waiting to get my timecard stamped, wishing the queue would move faster, else I was going to be late. In those days, there was no minimum wage, no working time...
SOCIAL PLATFORMS – You can’t live with them and we can’t live without them.
Can any of us imagine HOW we would have survived and surfed the turbulent waters of a national lockdown, and the consequences COVID 19 has had to our businesses and employees, without a Communications platform? Over recent years, we’ve seen a plague of SOCIAL...
How is your HR Team engaging with their workforce?
If COVID 19 has taught us anything, it’s that business tools like email, intranets and written letters simply don’t cut it when it comes to engaging with today’s workforce. Even more so when people have been or continue to work from home. Disengagement causes real...
Today’s workforce feel disconnected. Here’s why…
According to a recent survey by ENGINE INSIGHTS, from a sample of just over 1,000 adults who have been working from home due to COVID-19, almost 80% of today’s workforce feel disconnected from what is going on in their organisations – this despite the meteoric rise of...
Kerbside Collection – Contactless Click & Collect
Times are changing and currently, things are both different and difficult for retailers and the public alike. We are all trying to get to grips with the ‘new normal’. One impact we have seen is a major increase in online sales, however, this has also highlighted it as...
Meet Team Metro
Over these past few months, the whole team here at RMS have been working hard helping our retail, hospitality & healthcare customers work remotely and maintain the highest levels of communications, compliance and employee engagement. In the background, our Support...