Hello,
Does anyone have experience with RMS in a grocery store environment? I have a four lane grocery store project and basically, I want to know if it will work and work well. I am looking at a couple other products but would like to use RMS. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance!
Dan
Hey Danny. I'm integrating a 3-store chain right now. There are definitely kinks that you have to watch out for, but it will do almost everything a grocery store should.
Microsoft doesn't officially support RMS in a grocery environment, so make sure your reseller gets you integrated properly with the right add-ons. A
4-lane setup will be very expensive, and for a small install like yours, you might want to consider the Casio solution.I'm assuming that since your last name is Suh, you're probably integrating an Asian grocery, which has another host of problems that no other grocery store will have. That's what I'm working throught, so if you run into problems, maybe I'll have seen it before.
David
"Danny Suh" wrote:
We currently have RMS installed in a 3 lane grocery store with scales with a 2 lane deli. It works great... Make sure you have a powerful server and our mobile suite sealed the deal for their ordering and inventory needs.
Casey Hanson New West Technologies
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I am a real estate developer that somehow got sucked into the grocery business. Our store is running RMS and it works great. I think we would actually make a great case study for Microsoft's website- when my partners and I bought the business, it was failing... now (with a lot of credit to RMS) business is booming. There are a lot of really really great features that RMS has, like the weighted item (used for loose items sold by weight, fruits, vegs., sweets, etc.) and its ability to read random weight UPCs.
I am also going to complement Microsoft, here. I think most people that know RMS would agree with me on this one... the software has a very nice POS/checkout interface. So many POS software developers screw everything up and make the input and software complicated in an attempt to create a "feature rich" package and entering a sale in many software packages is a time consuming and complex task. RMS gets right to the point at checkout and gives you the ability to start scanning items immediately and tender the sale quickly-- very critical in a high throughput environment like a supermarket or hypermarket.
QUANTITY- Once we figured this out, everything was really perfect. If you hit X * before scanning an item, it automatically enters the X as the quantity. (Ex. 3 * 123456 will automatically enter 3 of item 123456... 5*
123456 will automatically enter 5 in the item quantity)Let me know if you have any questions. Use ericg at silvercohen.com.
Best/Eric Glazier
"CaseyHans> We currently have RMS installed in a 3 lane grocery store with scales
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