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Press Release: Retail Manager Solutions is delighted to announce that Halfords, the UK’s leading retailers of motoring, cycling and leisure products and service, has selected RMS’ cross-functional digital workplace called Metro.
Retail Manager Solutions Limited, Castle Malwood, Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants. SO43 7PE Date 28 April 2023: Retail Manager Solutions is delighted to announce that Halfords, the UK’s leading retailer of motoring, cycling and leisure products and service, has selected...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Diane Wehrle, Marketing & Insights Director at Springboard Research
RMS is delighted to announce that Diane Wehrle, Marketing & Insights Director at Springboard Research, will be joining us at Metro Connect to share her thoughts, views and opinions on the very latest retail insights. Be sure to register today and join top retail...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Professor Gareth Harvey, Director of Consumer Psychology at DECIDE
Back by popular demand, we’re delighted to announce that Professor Gareth Harvey, Director of Consumer Psychology at DECIDE, will be rejoining us for this year's Metro Connect Forum to share more of his knowledge on shopping behaviours and the power of psychology to...
Metro Connect Speaker Announcement: Jennifer Sproul, CEO of The Institute of Internal Communication
We're thrilled to announce that Jennifer Sproul, CEO of The Institute of Internal Communication, will again be joining us as one of our leading industry speakers. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to hear from the only independent professional body solely...
Press Release: Magnet, the longest-running and largest kitchen supplier and manufacturer in the UK selects Metro.
Retail Manager Solutions Limited, Castle Malwood, Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants. SO43 7PE Retail Manager Solutions are delighted to announce that Magnet, the longest-running and largest kitchen supplier and manufacturer in the UK, has selected RMS’ cross-functional...
RMS Blog
What’s our USP?
We’ve shared before what keeps Metro at the top of branch control and communication, but one question that comes up from time to time is, “What’s Metro’s USP?” Let's take a look. There are countless other vendors out there that can provide an alternative for every...
List allergens to save lives.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has proposed changes so all shops that prepare and sell packaged food on-site should list all ingredients and highlight major allergens to avoid deaths. This follows the tragic deaths of Celia Marsh in 2018 and 15-year-old Natasha...
How much time and money do companies waste on email?
Our reliance on email has gotten out of hand, and there’s absolutely no reason for it; email is no longer the most effective way to communicate, engage, or collaborate with your workforce. According to various internet sources (just google it!), the average modern-day...
Retail Reinvention
According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 93,000 fewer jobs in retail during 2018, and that trend looks to continue as the prediction made by the British Retail Consortium in 2016 starts to look increasingly accurate. The BRC said then that almost a...
How to turn Black Friday into a Golden Quarter!
Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving when Americans traditionally start their Christmas shopping) and Cyber Monday have become growing phenomenon’s for UK shoppers seeking a bargain on their Christmas shopping. For retailers, the build-up to this event, along with...
Maximising the AI opportunity
This week we had the opportunity to attend Microsoft Future Decoded 2018 and have come away with a mind-blowing view of the future. With incredible first-hand insights into technology concepts such as Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge, as well as emerging...
What are you budgeting for?
Perhaps you are looking to improve communications, compliance and employee engagement. Or maybe your needs are more service-driven, and you struggle to get the right staff working at the right time and with the right skills. Possibly, your priority is to urgently...
Local labelling Imperatives
Reading the sad events that unfolded recently due to an incorrectly labelled baguette whilst also hearing of another death due to an allergic reaction, one cannot help but think, with all the technology available, how these tragic events could have been avoided....
Is your organisation’s efficiency clogged up with Toxic Technology?
Toxic technology - It's nobody's fault, but the inevitability of developing and purchasing individual applications to solve single problems. In isolation, this can work fine, automating processes and bringing productivity gains to the individuals utilising the...
Personal Productivity Tools
People like to dabble around in the world of personal productivity tools - Word or Pages instead of a typewriter, Excel or Sheets instead of a calculator and PowerPoint or Keynote instead of overhead slides. And just like their predecessors, they are not easily...
Intelligent pricing could help to eliminate waste from luxury brands
I read an interesting post this morning on the Retail Technology Review website on the back of recent news that luxury brands have destroyed millions of pounds worth of unsold merchandise to avoid their products falling into the wrong hands and being sold on the "grey...