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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...
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...
RMS Blog
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...
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...