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Retail Checkouts – The Best Last Impression

Andy Buyting — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:56:02 +0000

It’s at your checkouts where your customers will have their last impression before they leave the store. Your point of sale (POS) checkout systems can literally make or break you. Just last week, my wife and I needed a few things for our house, so I slipped out one evening to head to a national [...]

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Flowers, Spas and Jewellery Among Top Mother’s Day Purchases in Canada

Andy Buyting — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:11:23 +0000

Reliable Point-of-Sale Solutions Crucial for Florists Who Process Up to Three Per Cent of Annual Business on Mother’s Day Alone Canadians certainly love their moms, lavishing them with flowers, spa treatments and jewellery for Mother’s Day 2009. Point-of-sale results from Moneris Solutions, Canada’s largest provider of payment processing solutions, reveals that florists across the country experienced [...]

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Preventing Retail Fraud

Andy Buyting — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:19:58 +0000

With today’s economic environment, retailers should be careful when it comes to retail fraud and theft. As a retailer, you can’t afford to have people defrauding your business in good times. During these tough economic times, it’s just as important to be diligent when it comes to protecting your property and business. Last November, the National Retail Federation reported that sales returns were up by 19% over the previous year. Of those returns, they estimated that approximately $11.8 billion of those returns were fraudulent, up 8% over the prior year. Read Multi-Channel Merchant’s recent article on this subject. When it comes to fraudulent returns, there are a number of rules of thumb that I think every retailer should watch out for. Read more for a short list of what may happen and what I recommend to help prevent each scenario. Subscribe to this RSS feed to receive future updates.

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