POS For New Store - RMS or POS? Compatible Hardware?

I have been tasked to set up a New General/Retail/Grocery type store with about 5 lanes, and 1 Mobile Flower/Plants Lane. I have looked at other options while looking at Microsoft RMS 2.0 and POS 2009. Here are the few questions that I have, and was wondering if an expert here can help me with them.

  1. The store will have General Items (with Barcode Labels), Produce (with No Barcode Labels), Meat and Fish (w/ or w/out Barcode Labels) and Plants (Barcode Labels). Some of these items will have weight as well, and some of these items will use price embedded in Barcodes (Meat etc). Which option will serve me best in this scenario and let me do all that needs to be done without any issues, Microsoft RMS 2.0 or POS 2009?

  1. Which ever solution is suggested, which is the best compatible hardware for it to use in the scenario above. Please also note that the owners want to use the combo SCALE/SCANNER units, the big ones like Magelan or Datalogic, will they work as well, if yes, how do I find out which are the compatible models.

  2. Instead of using Pole Display, can a second Monitor/Screen be attached facing the customer, and if it will just show the items being ringed up, plus related advertisments on one side of the screen. Is this even possible with either Microsoft RMS or POS 2009?

  1. Since this is a Brand New implementation, which would be the best Software solution to use, which does not run into upgradation, end of life kind of issues in the next 5 years. Which version of Windows Operating System to use, Which version and flavor of Microsoft SQL to use which does not run into any kind of space issues.

  2. Is it possible to archive say previous years data to a back office or a different kind of system or even a dummy or duplicate system to offload unnecessary data from the servers.

  1. Any/All other issues that I might need to keep in mind once I start on this project if I were to use either Microsoft RMS 2.0 or POS 2009. I am sure I could use expert help from people here who have implemented already and ran into issues.

Thanks a lot.

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Nas
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ALSO, ONE OTHER IMPORTANT THIS I FORGOT TO ASK...

  1. If using Microsoft RMS 2.0, DO I NEED to use HeadQuarters? Its just a single store with 6 lanes total. WOULD JUST the Store Operations (Lanes) part do?

  1. Where does the DATABASE / DATA reside? WHICH WILL BE THE SERVER COMPUTER? I d> I have been tasked to set up a New General/Retail/Grocery type store with

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Nas

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rarmstrong

Both RMS and POS2009 are not grocery systems, they are systems designed for retail. Although they can be used in a grocery store they both lack specific grocery features. I would not install any of these software packages in a grocery store with more than 2 lanes.

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Sacha Favelevic

Hi Rob,

Could you please expand on how the case/unit purchasing has been improved and how it differers from the RMS implementation of it? If I have a case of drinks, but I also need to sell individual drinks, how is this handled?

Also, you said there is an app that enables multi-store in POS 2009? Where is this app?

Thanks!

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Josh

Hi Rob,

Could you please expand on how the case/unit purchasing has been improved and how it differers from the RMS implementation of it? If I have a case of drinks, but I also need to sell individual drinks, how is this handled?

Also, you said there is an app that enables multi-store in POS 2009? Where is this app?

Thanks!

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Josh

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rarmstrong

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