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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...
Coronavirus – COVID-19 – Updated 18th March
COVID-19 Update - 18th March 2020 As a result of the statement from the Prime Minister Monday 16th March, and further updates released since, as a Business, RMS have decided to implement a 'work from home' policy effective as of Wednesday the 18th March 2020. All...
Metro Forum 2019 – Post Event Report
25% increase in attendees to the Forum, 91% of attendees stayed for the Awards, 96% satisfaction rating overall for the event, 100% want to attend again - These are just some of the headlines from this year's Metro Forum and Awards event where more than 120 retailers...
Metro Forum 2019 – Photographs
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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...
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...