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ISS45 Number one in market share among wholesaler-served independents and small grocery chains, the lightning-quick ISS45 is competitively priced and is the only PoS system dedicated exclusively to the independents. It’s a system-based solution and can be seamless integrated with other communications systems. Return to top |
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ScanMaster With its long and successful history with independent grocers and regional chains, ScanMaster is competitively priced and is one of StoreNext’s two PoS systems dedicated exclusively to these independents. It’s a system-based solution and can be seamless integrated with other communications systems. Return to top |
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High Speed Credit/Debit Is your store still on dial-up for your credit/debit transactions? Are your customers nervously staring at your cashiers for the 16 plus seconds it takes to get a transaction approved? More than likely your customers are used to a 3-4 second approval after a card is swiped in other retail stores. Not only is it faster for the customer, but you can probably save 12+ seconds per credit/debit transaction. Couple that with Signature Capture, and you could be saving 22 seconds per transaction. During peak periods, this could even be the difference between happy customers and customers that would rather shop elsewhere. Are you using a satellite for high speed today? Switching to broadband/DSL may offer significant savings as well. Return to top |
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Internet Security PCI, DSS, PABP and other acronyms can be confusing. The bottom line is that without compliance you could, at minimum, incur large fines from your credit card processor and, at worst, put your entire business at risk. A combination of services from Vendor Safe Technologies and Connected Services may be your best defense against unauthorized access that may compromise your POS and back office systems. Your account rep can help design the most cost effective solution for you. |
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Pricer® Electronic Shelf Labels When the cost of an item goes up $.05 do you hesitate to make a retail price change because it’s too much hassle to print and hang a new paper shelf tag? Even worse, do you need to order that tag from your warehouse? Who hangs the tags? Is it a clerk or is it a well paid manager or scan coordinator? Could they be doing something more productive with their time? Pricer Electronic Shelf Labels allow you to instantly send price changes out to the aisles, and present a clean, consistent and professional shelf label for your customers. Based on new lower label costs, reduced labor and increased margins, the Return on Investment for ESL’s has never looked better. Return to top |
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Electronic Check Acceptance (ECA) Are you still counting checks and preparing deposits? Are you still waiting for customer checks to clear? Are you and your managers assessing a check’s “risk” level by looking at the customer? ECA allows you to convert paper checks into electronic transactions. The system evaluates the check’s risk level by accessing a national database. If the check is approved, the cashier returns the paper check to the customer and the customers account is electronically debited. You get your money in as little as two business days, reduce many of your fees, reduce the amount of paper you have to track, reduce the risk of lost, stolen or damaged checks, and protect consumer privacy by returning the customers check at the point of sale so their account and routing numbers remain confidential. Return to top |
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CCTV (Camera’s) Do you ever find empty packages of medicine in the HBC aisle or other parts of the store? Would you like to know who stole them? Do you know if your stock clerk paid for their bag of potato chips and soda? Does your current system require you to switch tapes every day? Are the images in black and white and so blurry you can’t tell if the shopper is a man or a woman? Our latest digital CCTV observation systems allow you to record, review, and easily burn to CD any occurrences you wish to save or forward to the authorities. New hard drive sizes allow you to store far more data than previously, and the systems can even integrate with our newer Point of Sale systems so you can review footage of the cashier and their transactions at the same time. Our systems also allow for remote high speed access so you can watch the store from a remote location. Dialing into the store from home probably doesn’t seem like a lot of fun, but if you do it once a month and call the store to comment on something positive or negative that you saw, they will know you’re watching. Return to top |
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Signs & Labels Do you hold off on hanging up shelf talkers until the cashier with the “good” hand writing comes in to work? Do you hand write shelf tags and try to calculate the unit weight and measure with a calculator, or even worse, not even calculate it at all? Our sign and label package makes it easy for you to print your own signs and labels easily, and the data is supplied by your Point of Sale system, so the calculations are done automatically. You can paste product images on to the signs, and they can all have a common look and feel. If you want to change a price, you simply change it and print a label. No need to hand write one or remember to order one from the warehouse. Return to top |
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Cash Handling How long does it take your cashier’s or office staff to count up their drawers? Do you schedule an extra 15 minutes at the end of a cashier’s shift to count their drawer? Could your office staff make better use of their time by being in front of customers? Tellermate’s solutions count coins and bills, as well as non-cash items such as checks, credit cards, gift certificates and coupons. The typical payback is less than 1 year! Return to top |
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Self-Checkout Fujitsu U-Scan® Self-Checkout Solutions for Independent Grocers – It’s time for independent grocers to check into the power of self-checkout. A standard feature of many grocery stores by the late 1990’s, self-checkout allows shoppers to scan, bag and pay for their goods with little or no assistance from store personnel. But historically the benefits of self-checkout have been the exclusive privilege of the world’s largest supermarket chains.Not anymore. With U-Scan, Dumac continues to level the technology playing field between independent grocers and the industry giants. Through Dumac, independents can seamlessly – and cost effectively – integrate U-Scan with ISS45 and ScanMaster, the industry’s premier POS system. Return to top |
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Signature Capture Are your cashiers still handing customers a receipt to sign at the end of a credit card transaction? Are you still storing months or years worth of signature receipts in banana boxes? Signature capture reduces paper use, allows you to easily find and reproduce a signature in the event of a dispute, and can allow customers to pre-sign early in their purchase saving about 10 seconds per credit transaction. Return to top |
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Wireless Hand Scanners Do your customers place big bags of dog food or cases of soda under their shopping carts? Do you suspect that some of your cashiers might see those items and choose to not pick them up and scan them? Even worse, has a customer or cashier ever been injured trying to lift a heavy item to or from the cart? We have just the solution, a wireless Hand Scanner using Bluetooth® wireless technology! Return to top |
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DSD with Deal Days Alert FMI studies have demonstrated that a 6-lane store with $100,000 in weekly sales and 33% of the store sales in DSD can expect to see $330 in weekly savings. This is based on FMI’s exhaustive research, consistently finding 1-1 ½% savings by automating DSD. Those savings can be accomplished using any competent DSD package, but Deal Days Alerts takes DSD to the next level.Do your DSD vendors overstock your store before an item goes on deal? Do they insufficiently stock your store while an item is on deal? Do they typically restock your store after it’s off deal? If so, you’re often selling DSD items at a reduced price after buying it at a higher cost! Our Deal Days Alerts accounts for these DSD business practices and can conservatively add 2% to your going out gross dollars. That could add an additional $660 dollars a week to your DSD savings! Return to top |
