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Press Release: Retail Manager Solutions is delighted to announce that Halfords, the UK’s leading retailers of motoring, cycling and leisure products and service, has selected RMS’ cross-functional digital workplace called Metro.
Retail Manager Solutions Limited, Castle Malwood, Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants. SO43 7PE Date 28 April 2023: Retail Manager Solutions is delighted to announce that Halfords, the UK’s leading retailer of motoring, cycling and leisure products and service, has selected...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Diane Wehrle, Marketing & Insights Director at Springboard Research
RMS is delighted to announce that Diane Wehrle, Marketing & Insights Director at Springboard Research, will be joining us at Metro Connect to share her thoughts, views and opinions on the very latest retail insights. Be sure to register today and join top retail...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Professor Gareth Harvey, Director of Consumer Psychology at DECIDE
Back by popular demand, we’re delighted to announce that Professor Gareth Harvey, Director of Consumer Psychology at DECIDE, will be rejoining us for this year's Metro Connect Forum to share more of his knowledge on shopping behaviours and the power of psychology to...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Jennifer Sproul, CEO of The Institute of Internal Communication
We're thrilled to announce that Jennifer Sproul, CEO of The Institute of Internal Communication, will again be joining us as one of our leading industry speakers. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to hear from the only independent professional body solely...
Press Release: Magnet, the longest-running and largest kitchen supplier and manufacturer in the UK selects Metro.
Retail Manager Solutions Limited, Castle Malwood, Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants. SO43 7PE Retail Manager Solutions are delighted to announce that Magnet, the longest-running and largest kitchen supplier and manufacturer in the UK, has selected RMS’ cross-functional...
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 ENGINE INSIGHTS, from a sample of just over 1,000 adults who have been working from home, almost 80% of today’s workforce feel disconnected from what is going on in their organisations – this despite the meteoric rise of virtual meetings that remote...
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...