Point of Sale Reports: Preparing for the Holiday Season

By: Jamie L. Novick of Next Step Retail Solutions  Traditionally retail is seasonal, Spring begins in January, Summer in April, Fall in July and the Holiday season in October. Accordingly, receipts are planned and floors are set.  Yet, when we look at the numbers from each season, retailers are finding a larger and larger percentage of yearly sales are done in Q4 / Holiday.In some cases more than half of a total year’s revenue...

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TSC is again honored to be one of Forbes Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion companies this year. Among these, only 22 Taiwan companies make the list, with TSC being the only label printer compa...

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August Retail Party Discussion - Rewind - Topic: Retail Design

On August 17th, 2012 a group of retail industry specialists gathered in an open Twitter discussion regarding retail design and visual merchandising. Attendees: King Retail Solutions / TwitterOne Step Retail Solutions / Twitter APG Cash Drawer / Twitter Smart Retail / Twitter Retail Tim / TwitterRetail Net Group / Twitter Sean Deale / Twitter. Here are some of the helpful tips presented by the attendees - What about trends and remodels? - An...

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The 3 All-Time Greatest Barcode Innovations

by Nate Schubert Let's face it, barcode technology isn't something that will generally make it to the top of the list of the world's greatest inventions. The truth of the matter is that most people don't notice the bevy of barcodes that surround them on a daily basis, and understanding how barcodes actually work is a knowledge bestowed on the few rather than the many. In spite of these somber realities, it remains that barcode technology is one of...

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Retail: What Happens if the Cloud Crashes?

What is the Cloud While a retailer has information on their POS system, getting your various computers to talk to one another (store to store, station to station) and in real time is made possible by Cloud POS, also known as web-based POS. Instead of your data saving to a server in the back office or to the machine you are working on, the data gets pushed up through a network connection (usually the internet) to “the cloud”. “Cloud” refers to the...

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Retail Hardware 101 as Featured in The Point of Sale News

One Step Retail Solutions recently compiled a comprehensive infographic entitled "the Complete POS Solution" which inspired Retail Hardware 101. This is intended for the on the ground retailer. We hope that his resource can be of assistance to aspiring and existing retailers. If you have additional questions or need assistance in compiling a complete hardware and software bundle please contact us for a free consultation....

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Tweeters Every Canadian Retailer Should Follow

After launching our increasingly popular "Twitter Accounts Every Retailer Should Follow" (targeted to US retailers), a bevy of Canadian resources were presented to us by long-time retail Tweeter, Retail.Ca the leading Canadian site dedicated to retail careers. Thank you Brenda for your years of bringing useful content to the land of Twitter and creating this very helpful list of retailer resources! You may...

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One Step Retail Solutions Attends 2012 Tea Collection

Tea Collection is a designer of mostly children’s apparel (some adult), located in the design district of San Francisco. Twice a year, they invite the retailers that carry their line to come to SF to see their newest line and participate in educational workshops that help them be great retailers. We were honored to be invited to represent retail technology in a series of workshops held at the fabulous California College of the Arts, where students...

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Complimentary Retail Metrics Webinar Series

RETAIL METRICS WebinarsComplimentary for All RetailersSeptember 25th - October 30thWe would like to invite you to our upcoming series of webinars covering retail metrics. All retailers are invited to these complementary webinars hosted by One Step Retail Solutionsfeaturing award winning retail consultant, Dan Jablons of Retail Smart Guys. About Dan Jablons: Dan Jablons worked in retail while attending the Ohio State University, where he graduated...

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Teamwork Retail Representative Featured on The Retail Life Blog

Meet Terra Russo, Teamwork Retail representative and retailer to the core. Her history in retail and technology chops will bring a whole new spin to your quest for the perfect point of sale. Check out this fun interview that covers everything from retailer tips, suggested resources and how a buyer got into retail technology....

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Your Social Media Activities vs Miley Cyrus' Hair

It was recently brought to my attention that Miley Cyrus' bun (her HAIR) has more followers than a vast majority of retailers out there. I laughed for a few minutes and then there was a somber silence to mourn all of the lost sales and profits for small to medium sized retailers. Social media still gets flack for being a "fad" or "pointless" while well over 25,000 people are getting updates from a fictitious, inanimate object and are...

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[Client Feature] Party Mart Has a Serious POS System

When North Westerners are looking to plan the perfect party or event, they go to Party Mart. When Party Mart is looking for a POS system to support a traffic volume and a product count that would make a run-of-the-mill system glitch like Hal in "2001: A Space Odyssey", they come to One Step Retail Solutions for a state of the art system that will keep them running smoothly day in and day out....

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Twitter Accounts Retailers Should Be Following

Retail TweetersGeneral Retailing, Industry News and TipsRetail Week @RetailWeekRetail Wire @RetailWireRIS @RISnewsInsightsHanover Research @hanover4bixRetail Minded @RetailMindedRetail Online Magazine @RetailOnlineMagOne Step Retail Solutions @OneStepRetailFuture of Retail Alliance @joinFORANY Times Retail Reporter @stephcliffRetail Technology / TechnologyPoint of Sale News @PointOfSaleNewsOne Step Retail Solutions @OneStepRetailTech Crunch @TechCrunch...

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TSC Attends 20th Taiwan Excellence Award Ceremony

TSC Auto ID Technology Co., Ltd. (TSC) attended the 2012 Taiwan Excellence Award Ceremony, which was held at the Taipei International Convention Center yesterday. This award is organized by the Bureau of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and executed by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council. In recent years, there have been more and more Taiwan companies to join this competition. More than 425 companies – the most participation...

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Lightspeed for iPad Wins RetailNOW 2012's Annual Innovative Solution Award

Lightspeed, a top software system for retailers has won the 2012 Innovation Award in the Software Application category. "The Innovative Solutions Awards will be given to those nominated companies that have created a dynamic solution in their respective market" - RSPA "LightSpeed for iPad is retail’s first interactive point-of-sale platform that gives stores a personalized selling tool that scans inventory, details products not shown on...

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The History of "Boutique"

Being a big fan of definitions and the history behind words, I recently pondered the exact definition and qualifications to be deemed a "boutique store". bou·tique<a onmousedown="spk(this,{lk:'nx1fkx',en:'wotdau',io:'0',b:'wotd',tp:'lrl',m:'wotdau'})" href="#"></a><a target="_blank" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/B05/B0546100"><img border="0" src="http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif"></a>/buˈtik/...

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How to open Oss connection to SAP system?

This article answers the following queries:ü  What is the need to open remote service or OSS connection to an SAP system?ü  How to open Oss connection to SAP system?ü  How to check SAP router status?ü  How to modify existing oss connections of an SAP system?ü  How to delete existing oss connection of an SAP system? ü  How to set up and to open a Remote Service connection to an SAP system?In real time scenarios, there...

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