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Metro Connect Speaker Announcement – Phillip Adcock
Discover the behavioural science shortcuts that turn communication into conversion. In this engaging, insight-packed session, you’ll learn how to speak the language of decision-making, whether you’re swaying shoppers, motivating store teams, or navigating tricky internal dynamics. This talk will arm you with practical, proven techniques to influence more effectively, drive action, and build better outcomes in every conversation. From the shop floor to the boardroom (and even the dinner table!), learn how to get what you want, ethically, persuasively, and powerfully.
Metro Connect 2025
Experience a terrific day of learning and inspiration at Metro Connect 2025 and hear from industry-leading retailers and experts.
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
Relevance Fatigue
We all suffer from it. Being deluged in 'misinformation' from a source that is so arrogant and uncaring, they scatter so much of what they perceive as vital information into my email, WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook, Instagram etc. that they make everything irrelevant – even...
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still…
It's December, and as always, budgets are coming soon. Now is the time when many businesses reflect on the year to date whilst simultaneously putting months of planning and preparation into play to ensure this year's "golden quarter" really delivers the numbers....
Act in haste, repent at leisure…
Act in haste, repent at leisure happens to be one of the best pieces of advice I have ever received and has served me well over the years, stopping me from making quite a few unnecessary and potentially costly mistakes. Believed to have been adapted from the...
Why Metro is the first choice digital workplace for retail, hospitality and healthcare.
Whether you're a small boutique business with a handful of employees or a global giant with thousands of co-workers worldwide, there are fundamental elements of the employee experience that every distributed business must address to succeed. But, as scale and...
Re-energising the shelf edge
Already responsible for benefiting many retailers with increased revenues and profitability, Metro Print Controller makes it simple to bring ‘tickets that sell’ to the shelf edge faster and more cost-effectively than ever before…
Marketing Metro During Covid
Rob Morgan: There is no doubt that lockdown brought with it many new challenges and required new communication and engagement strategies. Especially for those companies who found themselves suddenly working remotely. The RMS team are always asking, "What does this...
RMS Team Life During Covid
Karen Dyke: If someone said to be me back in March 2020 that we would still be in lockdown a year later, I wouldn't have believed them - but here we are, and what a year it has been! For RMS, in some ways, it has been business as usual. We have been blessed to be able...
A Year on in a New World…
As we entered 2020, with Brexit finally done and a new future ahead of us, as an economy there were green shoots of recovery and signs of growth - the media coverage of the high street however was all doom and gloom. We had all heard that Retail was on the brink of...
Communication – Can You Hear Me?
For many years, I have debated the importance of communication… from a mainframe ‘point-to-point’ messaging system to the wonders of more recent communication tools, such as Teams and Zoom. In 2021, it’s fair to say we've all become communication LUNATICS! I can...
ReThink Productivity Podcast featuring Karen Dyke
Tune in here to hear Karen Dyke, CEO at RMS share how we have been helping the sudden switch to remote working, and the benefits of the Metro roadmap.
Is your shopper marketing ready for the ‘retail of tomorrow’?
With England now in its second lockdown, and other parts of the UK coming out of local restrictions, it’s really not easy keeping up with how things are changing and in turn keeping retail teams up to speed with new regulations and informed as to what these changes...