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RMS take to the Connected Retail Stage at EuroCIS 24
Karen Dyke (CEO of RMS) took to the Connected Retail Stage at EuroCIS 24 and shared how Germany’s largest discount fashion and home goods retailer implemented Metro in over 4,400 stores and 14 countries to improve the communication to their employees, streamlining the...
That’s a wrap on Metro Connect 2023!
Following an action-packed day in the heart of the New Forest, the 2023 RMS User Forum came to a close after featuring incredible customer presentations from Halfords, New Look, Dunlem and Southern Co-op. On Thursday, the 6th of July, the RMS team set out to...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: New Look
RMS is delighted to announce that New Look will be one of our featured guest speakers at Metro Connect. Having recently moved off RMS’ legacy Ops Director product and migrated to Metro, the move brings New Look a host of new features, including Metro’s latest Mobile,...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Dunelm
RMS is thrilled to share that Dunelm will be one of our featured guest speakers at Metro Connect and will be sharing how they have been using Metro’s People Suite for the past nine years, how it has supported the optimisation of scheduling and time management, and...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Southern Co-op
RMS is excited to announce that Southern Co-op will be joining RMS 'on the couch' as one of our customer speakers at Metro Connect. Hear how Metro is delivering significant benefits across multiple trading groups, including the society's Food, End of Life, and...
RMS Blog
What are you barking about?
At last year’s RMS Retail Forum, I remembered listening aghast to an inspirational presentation by one of our guest speakers, Phillip Adcock – The ‘go-to’ guy for science-based customer insights - and suddenly realised just how little I truly understood about how...
DIGITIZING TIME – who remembers clocking in with their timecard?!
I remember, many years ago, in my first job in Retail, the timecard! Standing patiently in a queue waiting to get my timecard stamped, wishing the queue would move faster, else I was going to be late. In those days, there was no minimum wage, no working time...
SOCIAL PLATFORMS – You can’t live with them and we can’t live without them.
Can any of us imagine HOW we would have survived and surfed the turbulent waters of a national lockdown, and the consequences COVID 19 has had to our businesses and employees, without a Communications platform? Over recent years, we’ve seen a plague of SOCIAL...
How is your HR Team engaging with their workforce?
If COVID 19 has taught us anything, it’s that business tools like email, intranets and written letters simply don’t cut it when it comes to engaging with today’s workforce. Even more so when people have been or continue to work from home. Disengagement causes real...
Today’s workforce feel disconnected. Here’s why…
According to ENGINE INSIGHTS, a sample of just over 1,000 adults who have been working from home found that almost 80% of today’s workforce feel disconnected from what is going on in their organisations — this despite the meteoric rise of virtual meetings that remote...
Kerbside Collection – Contactless Click & Collect
Times are changing and currently, things are both different and difficult for retailers and the public alike. We are all trying to get to grips with the ‘new normal’. One impact we have seen is a major increase in online sales, however, this has also highlighted it as...
Meet Team Metro
Over these past few months, the whole team here at RMS have been working hard helping our retail, hospitality & healthcare customers work remotely and maintain the highest levels of communications, compliance and employee engagement. In the background, our Support...
Metro: Everything your business needs to reopen stores quickly, safely and profitably after COVID-19.
It’s been a challenging time for retailers, with the majority forced to either close or completely rethink their operation, however, there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel. Unless we see another spike in transmission (R) rates, from the 15th of June,...
Need to connect with your team during the Pandemic?
There’s no denying, we find ourselves in difficult and uncertain times. Our work colleagues and customers are worried – both on a personal and professional level – at times of crisis, people need to be kept up to speed as to what is going on in their place of work....
NRF 2020 – Key Takeaways from Retail’s Big Show
NRF is one of retails big annual pilgrimages with many leading UK and European retailers heading over to NYC for what has become a showcase for technology and industry-led thought leadership. Featuring 400+ speakers, 200+ workshops and 40,000 attendees, NRF this year...
What’s it like to be a Store Manager?
I don’t recall hearing anyone at school say, “When I grow up, I want to run a supermarket”, however, for those lucky enough to find their way into this amazing industry, the experiences and rewards are great. Retail is a proper ‘people industry’ where teamwork is...