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Metro Connect 2025
Experience a terrific day of learning and inspiration at Metro Connect 2025 and hear from industry-leading retailers and experts.
EuroCIS 2025
EuroCIS 2025 - The Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology takes place from February 18 to February 20, 2025, in Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, and the RMS team will be there! EuroCIS 2025 promises a captivating showcase of ground-breaking advancements shaping the future...
Retail Technology Show 2025
The Retail Technology Show 2025 - Connecting retail’s change-makers, the Retail Technology Show brings together Europe’s most forward-thinking retailers and leading tech innovators, and RMS will be there for the first RTS at ExCeL, London! The Retail Technology Show...
Metro Connect 2024 – Thank you!
Metro Connect has come and gone for another year. We're never quite sure how we do it, but yet again, we were blessed with great weather and had the most superb presentations and demonstrations throughout the day. These events only work when you are there, and so we...
EuroCIS 2024
EuroCIS 2024 - The Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology took place from February 27 to 29, 2024, in Düsseldorf. Over three days, the team from RMS Europe and the UK met with visitors to explain how Metro is helping many leading retail, hospitality and healthcare...
RMS Blog
Nurturing Mental Well-being in Today’s Diverse Workplace
In our fast-paced world, prioritising mental health has never been more crucial. Whether you're manning a busy retail counter, juggling tables in a bustling restaurant, brainstorming in a corporate boardroom, or working from your home office, your mental well-being is...
Don’t Let Workplace’s Closure Leave You Disconnected
As Meta announces the closure of its business social platform, Workplace, many organisations find themselves at a crossroads. But fear not! This shift presents an opportunity to elevate your employee engagement strategy with a more robust, feature-rich solution.
Can Your Supermarket Accurately Match Price, Product *and* Ingredients?
Recent scrutiny of the Aldi Price Match scheme at Tesco reveals a growing challenge: some “Price Matched” products are not like-for-like regarding ingredients. While Tesco is lowering prices to match Aldi, some of these lower-priced items can have significantly different ingredients. Could this be more new battle lines being drawn as retailers continue to fight for each customer’s hard-earned money?
Elevate Retail Performance with Metro Unified Comms
In the bustling world of retail, where every second counts and customer satisfaction is paramount, the secret to success lies in engaging and empowering your employees. Imagine a retail environment where teams are not only efficient but also motivated and connected....
Retail Compliance: Briefing Frontline Teams
As you meander through any retail store over the coming weeks and months, it's hard not to notice the flurry of activity—Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas, and New Year all fighting for resources and floorspace, with prominent displays of chocolates, prosecco,...
Unlocking Efficiency with Metro Activity Planner
Retailers often have to balance the delicate balance between maintaining smooth operations and executing crucial in-store projects. This balancing act can be particularly challenging when implementing changes like store redesigns, technology upgrades, or planogram updates, which can disrupt the shopping experience and lead to customer dissatisfaction.
How Employee Communication Apps Improve Internal Communication
Effective organisational communication has become a cornerstone of success in today’s fast-paced business environments. Recognising this, RMS, as thought leaders in digital workplace solutions, underlines in this short article the transformative impact employee communication apps can have on internal communication.
3 Ways Retailers Can Streamline Processes & Increase Productivity
The retail landscape is continuously in flux—it always has been. However, shifting consumer behaviours, supply chain disruptions, and labour shortages are all placing increasing pressure on margins and operational performance. Retailers that fail to adapt risk falling...
WhatsApp in Employee Communication: A Double-Edged Sword
With over 2 billion users, WhatsApp has permeated into various business sectors, including (be it officially and unofficially) the retail and hospitality workplaces. However, its application in employee communication has proven to be a double-edged sword, with...
Is your tech stack causing technology challenges?
On average, retailers use between 15 to 30 different software tools in their operational tech stack, with many of these fractured, operating in silos and with diverse commercial, support, and integration approaches. That might be surprising to some, but it's a big...
Delivering Retail Price Transparency
In the fiercely competitive retail landscape, businesses are continually striving to deliver a seamless and efficient shopping experience. Among the critical aspects of this pursuit is the clear display of prices and product information, which, according to a recent...