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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...
Guest Speaker Announcement: Halfords
RMS is delighted to announce that Halfords will be one of our customer speakers at Metro Connect. Halfords has recently partnered with RMS to digitise its store processes and efficiently manage communication, task management, and compliance across its store estate,...
Press Release: wilko, a household and garden retailer operating hundreds of stores across the UK, upgrades to Metro Activity Planner.
Retail Manager Solutions Limited, Castle Malwood, Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants. SO43 7PE Retail Manager Solutions is delighted to announce that wilko, a household and garden retailer, has upgraded to Metro Activity Planner. Operating hundreds of stores across the...
RMS Blog
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...
Communicating with your workforce – One to One
Communication is a vital skill in pretty much any environment that involves people; however, good communication is integral to business success in the workplace. Workplace communication isn’t just about passing on information, instructions, and tasks en masse. It is...