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More Speakers Confirmed for Metro Forum 2019
With now more than 120 leading brands and retailers set to attend Metro Forum 2019, we are delighted to confirm three more superb guest speakers presenting at this year's event. This action-packed day will see presentations from The Watches of Switzerland Group, The...
Metro Forum 2019 – Awards Shortlist Confirmed!
We are delighted to confirm the shortlist for this year’s Metro Awards, to be held on the 27th June at Castle Malwood. This year's judging panel, consisting of industry experts Phil Chapman (ITIM), Dominic Prendergast (OSS RETAIL), Phillip Adcock (SBXL) and David Goon...
Speakers confirmed for Metro Forum 2019
With more than 100 leading brands and retailers already registered to attend, we are delighted to confirm some of our guest speakers presenting at this years forum, with more to be announced shortly. An action-packed day will see presentations from these and other...
100+ leading brands expected at Metro Forum 2019
These are just some of the leading brands attending Metro Forum 2019, Thursday 27th June, Castle Malwood, Hampshire... Metro Forum 2019 is the 'must attend' event for all retail, hospitality and healthcare professionals to exchange ideas, hear industry analysis and...
10 Great Reasons to attend Metro Forum 2019
When it comes to spending time and money on events, we understand the buck stops with you or your Boss – so if you or the person above needs a few compelling reasons as to why you (and members of your team) should attend this year's Metro Forum, here they are: Network...
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Forget ‘digital detox’
In this Communication Markets Report, Ofcom suggests people are looking to ‘switch off’ by taking a digital detox. The survey, which questioned more than 2,000 adults and 500 teenagers suggested 34% of internet users are taking regular periods away from the web, often...
Innovation isn’t just about invention…
Many of the most successful innovations were not brought about by outright invention, but rather by reconfiguring existing technologies to better meet the needs and demands of today. Let me give you an example... A few years ago, RMS developed 5 software modules to...
What would happen to your business if the unthinkable happened?
Having a robust proven Comms and Compliance toolset in your business will help protect your employees, reduce operational risks and protect your brand and shareholder value
How can retailers boost productivity in light of the living wage?
Paying staff the living wage looks on the face of it to bring a whole raft of benefits to employers - Enhanced quality of the work by staff A fall in absenteeism of circa 25% Two-thirds of employers reported a significant impact on staff recruitment and retention 70%...
There’s often pain in laughter…
I read an interesting article a while back about how the funniest people are very often the saddest, and that their humour regularly comes from a place of darkness - This morning I came across a post on LinkedIn that reminded me of this and that many a true word is...
Will Amazon Shake Up The UK Grocery Market?
It’s not difficult however to see where the bricks and mortar retailers can really make a difference – for a start, they have physical stores – a trading theatre upon which to entice and engage customers ‘face to face’ in ‘real-time’
Question: What do WHS, Poundland, Matalan, Ryman, Enterprise Inns, Jollyes and 75+ other leading brands have in common?
Answer: Metro is our class-leading, cloud-based product suite that consolidates the RMS reputation for providing ‘best in class’ solutions, enabling all customers to plan their own journey according to their business requirements. The Metro map above provides a clear...
Shoppers ‘unable to spot cheapest deals’
According to the BBC, most grocery shoppers are unable to identify the cheapest deals when faced with a blizzard of "special offers" in stores, financial experts have said. The Money Advice Service asked just over 2,000 consumers to select the best value deals from...
A is for Apple, but which represents the best value?
Unit pricing is a great idea in theory, although in practice it is difficult to get right – it’s supposed to be a useful tool for people to simply compare food prices and choose the best value products, however with each and every supermarket choosing to present the information differently it’s not surprising time-poor, cash-strapped consumers are finding it all a bit of a chore to work out where the best value is.
Metro – Connecting Business Without Compromise
For more than a decade RMS have been providing retail, hospitality and healthcare teams with a range of software tools to help manage their distributed businesses more effectively. With solutions designed to support Operations, Compliance, HR, Buying, Project and Marketing teams RMS is proud to be working with more than 75 of the UK’s best known brands and retailers.
Seriously, why does poor in-store ticketing happen so frequently?
One of my favourite Twitter accounts is @Retailbarcode. Last week, they posted (as they regularly do) an interesting offer from one of our leading UK retailers along with the question, "Why does this [poor in-store ticketing] happen so frequently?" Now I confess, as...