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Newsagent signs £19m deal to speed up life at the till

News Independent newsagent Martin McColl has signed an eight-year £19m deal with Torex to supply POS (point of sale) systems across its entire 1,300 store estate.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Martin McColl head of IT Neil Hodges told silicon.com the POS...

Tags: pos, newsagent, torex, delivery

[30 Jan 2008]

Torex Retail looks to future

News His business, which has a revenue of £10m per year, gets revenues from convenience store sales and petrol sales, which means his POS system is critical to the running of the business. He has used a Torex-owned POS product for nine years, even...

Tags: torex retail, retail, epos, supplier

[13 Nov 2007]

430 jobs for Scotland as US firm opens call centre

News First Data International sells electronic processing, ATM and POS services, and customer management to card issuers in nearly 70 countries. First Data, the US payments processing company, is to open a call centre in Glasgow creating 430 jobs over...

Tags: call centre

[14 Nov 2006]

Retailers fail to grasp tech potential

News However, the advent of chip and PIN and trials of other changes at the point of sale (PoS) - such as contactless payments - have seen many retailers forced to update older IT infrastructure. More than two-thirds (69 per cent) of those surveyed said...

Tags: contactless payments, epos, retail

[06 Jun 2006]

CIO Forum: Who's getting the RFID benefits?

News In the next POS replacement cycle, ID cards will start making an appearance" for companies selling luxury goods, Birch said. RFID is all very well for securing the supply chain but CIOs must make sure benefits are being shared equally between...

Tags: retail, cio forum, rfid

[27 Sep 2005]

SuSE and IBM get together for retail alliance

News The companies hope the deal will help Linux move into the so-called point of sale (POS) terminal market, where IBM already has a strong position, Big Blue and SuSE plan to announce on Thursday. POS terminals handle tasks such as recording...

[08 Jan 2004]

McDonald's adds card payments to menu

McDonald's adds card payments to menu

News Under the six-year deal with Transaction Network Services, McDonald's is currently installing the latest point-of-sale (POS) equipment in Northampton as part of the chip and PIN credit card trials that will see PINs keyed in at cash till terminals...

Tags: tns, credit cards, chip and pin, mcdonalds

[29 Aug 2003]

Major stores beam credit card details to the car park

Major stores beam credit card details to the car park

News At first we thought it was simply POS (point of sale) data to help keep an accurate inventory and pricing data, but soon discovered there was also credit card data being sent. Major US retail chain Best Buy has been forced to close down its...

[02 May 2002]

UK smart card deadline set to 2004

UK smart card deadline set to 2004

News All point-of-sale (POS) devices have to be integrated with a smart card reader which ensures better transaction security. EMV, the consortium which oversees all credit card standards developments, in said all POS machines must be migrated to the...

[26 Oct 2001]

Compaq goes to the shops

Compaq goes to the shops

News The server company has also promised to partner Systech in engineering next-generation point of sale (POS) systems that incorporate wireless and internet connectivity. Compaq Computer has handed out a $20m investment in Canadian Systech Retail...

[26 Sep 2001]

IBM touts Net-enabled cash register

News The product, called IBM SurePOS 700, connects retailers' Point of Sale (POS) tills to customer information via an Internet connection. IBM has announced the launch of a Web-enabled cash till, designed to let traditional retailers link up their...

[13 Feb 2000]

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