Demanding customer expectations have raised the technological standards in retail stores. Emerging futuristic technologies promise a complete, satisfying customer journey. Amidst the umpteen number of Point of Service solutions that have emerged in recent years,…
Delivering the ultimate retail omnichannel channel experience requires coherent and seamless data flow across stores, ecommerce, customer relationship, order management, and loss prevention systems. These systems usually operate in silos and integrating them is a…
Almost every e-commerce retailer has their eyes on holiday shopping season. By filling up their online stores with the best deals and huge discounts, online retailers aim to get a portion of the cake. Throughout…
According to a research by IHL Group, in the next few years, traditional POS will be replaced by tablets among smaller retail chains. It’s understood from the stats that Mobile POS are increasingly replacing traditional…
There’s nothing like having a sophisticated system in place to run your business. What keeps the system up and running are the tiny yet important components like infrastructure and network. A healthy system to keep…
The rising customer demands push retailers to adopt futuristic technologies so that their employees can successfully cope up with the changing retail landscape. But in reality, regardless of the technologies and expenditures, it’s important for…
IHL research and advisory firm recently named Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service offering—the top overall provider for both types of retailers (hard good and soft goods). Modern and flexible, Xstore POS has the features that makes…
As mentioned in my earlier blog post(POS Testing – Part 1), in competitive business such as retail, POS can be a key differentiator. It is very important for POS applications to be reliable, scalable, easily…
What is POS? A POS (point of sale) is a computer which is connected to a receipt printer, cash drawer, credit/debit card reader and a bar code scanner etc. Retailers use an automated retail system…
In our fourth episode, we have two speakers, Chetan Singh, a solution architect for Retail store solutions and Divya Madaan, Senior Test Automation Consultant. They discuss at length about challenges retailers face in manual testing…
Although Test Automation is not a new concept anymore, many retailers are struggling to test POS systems successfully. Testing a POS software package manually can lead to many challenges like: Increased Time to Market since…
Globally over $120 billion worth of shrinkage is suffered annually by retailers, which accounts for 1.44% of total retail sales, according to the Global Retail Theft Barometer. As the realities of loss become better understood,…
