Epos system
Photos: Bowled over by high-tech cricket at Lords
Photo Lords is also installing new Epos units for the upcoming season with 17 units going into retail areas. The Epos units are linked together through wireless access points like this. The... [25 Mar 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo Microsoft took the wraps off a new retail showroom at its Redmond headquarters which features RFID, electronic point of sale (Epos) systems and digital signage. The Pre is the first device to run Palm's new mobile... [28 Jan 2009]
Photos: A look inside Microsoft's new retail flagship
Photo According to Tim Gruver, director of technology and strategy for worldwide retail at Microsoft, RFID tracking has been deployed throughout the centre and the Epos units are capable of reading the track-and-trace tags,... [26 Jan 2009]
Financials consolidation no pie in the sky for Greggs
News All invoice matches are done within the Coda system, which integrates with the retailer's inventory and Epos applications. Greggs' implementation of a purchase order system went live in... [21 Jan 2009]
There's no escape from the cloud, say CIOs
News Last year I surprised myself by shortlisting a cloud-based [software] supplier and I expect when I replace Epos it will be a hosted solution. with six CIOs voting yes and a further six saying no, even those who don't see... [11 Nov 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News Keisha Meade, Coffee Republic's Epos systems manager, added customers have "an incredible appetite for the technology" - especially those using the Canary Wharf bar where she said knowledge of the tech is strong. [23 Jul 2008]
Red Cross invests in Epos system
News Currently each store at the charity's retail outlets has electronic tills rather than an integrated Epos system. The British Red Cross has signed a deal with Cybertill to install up to 430 electronic... [14 Jul 2008]
Newsagent Martin McColl signs £4m VPN contract
News According to Martin McColl general manager for IT, Neil Hodge, the system upgrade is intended to improve the reliability of the network, which is a collection of dial-up connections, provide adequate connectivity for... [25 Jun 2008]
Greggs tucks into centralised accounting model
News The product will interface to our existing manufacturing and Epos applications helping us to further automate our accounting processes. The system will also allow Greggs to move from a quarterly... [10 Apr 2008]
White Stuff settles on secure EPOS network
News The network replaces in part the retailer's existing system provided by Prologic, which was originally brought in to handle Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) data, one of the components needed to receive Chip and PIN... [02 Apr 2008]
Co-op Group polls customers at the till
News Convenience store retailer Co-op Group is using its electronic point-of-sale (Epos) system to save money on customer satisfaction surveys. The system builds on an existing... [10 Aug 2007]
Rohan wraps up tech overhaul
News It uses a messaging system from the company called Sonic Enterprise Service Bus as a backbone to provide communications between the systems and its website and EPOS till points at each branch. Outdoor... [25 Jul 2007]
Richard Snooks, CIO, Capital & Regional
Comment Some of the key technologies in the infrastructure include applications delivered remotely over a Citrix thin-client set-up, a Dell and EMC storage area network, two data centres using ServerIron switching technology from Foundry... [09 Jul 2007]
Mothercare tears up paper-based store comms
Case Study Kerr knew he needed a more integrated system but waited until the retailer updated its electronic point of sale (Epos) system in February 2006, so he had a more advanced platform at... [03 Jul 2007]
Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth
Case Study All of this needs to be recorded at the point of sale but most EPOS [electronic point of sale] systems can't cope with this level of complexity. With core systems so closely linked to EPOS, Woosey needed... [25 Jun 2007]