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Winners announced at 2019 Metro Awards Ceremony
What a terrific evening everyone had following Metro Forum 2019 on the 27th June 2019. A full report of the evening with pictures will follow but for now, our congratulations go to all our award winners below! Newcomer Award – this award recognises a customer...
More Speakers Confirmed for Metro Forum 2019
With now more than 120 leading brands and retailers set to attend Metro Forum 2019, we are delighted to confirm three more superb guest speakers presenting at this year's event. This action-packed day will see presentations from The Watches of Switzerland Group, The...
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...
RMS Blog
What are you budgeting for?
Perhaps you are looking to improve communications, compliance and employee engagement? Or maybe your needs are more service-driven and you struggle getting the right staff working at the right time and with the right skills? Possibly your priority is to urgently...
Local 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,...
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...