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Metro Forum 2022 – Review
The 17th Annual User Forum held on Thursday 14th July was the first Metro Forum envisioned by RMS' Forum Steering Group – thanks to representatives from The Watches of Switzerland Group, Greene King, Ryman, The Entertainer and One Stop for the vision and input they...
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...
RMS Blog
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...
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...