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Sublime Swim & Sunwear Wins@Retail With Our Help

March 12, 2013

Sublime Swim & Sunwear is a unique high-end retail store selling swim, beach and resort wear located in St. Albert, Alberta. Established by Lynn Carolei and her daughter a decade ago in March of 2003, Sublime Swim carries swim and sun wear for every age, gender and body type.

Lynn and her daughter hit on a very specialized niche ...

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Canadian Retail Solutions and Focus Retail Partner To Deliver Management One Winning@Retail™ Program

February 26, 2013

We’ve been offering the Management One Winning@Retail™ program long enough to know that it makes a tangible difference in the business operations of our independent retail clients. At a training conference with Management One leaders in Arizona, CRS principal Scott Smith was pleased to meet Jeff Jankelow and Gordon Peters, the managing partners of Focus Retail. While working ...

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PCI Security Compliance, Canada

January 4, 2013

If you haven’t heard the term “PCI” in relation to your retail Point-of-Sale software, you will soon. PCI is a standard that has emerged as the test for whether or not your retail operations are a security risk for credit card information theft.

What does it mean to me?

If you collect or store credit card information, and if ...

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The End of the Penny in Canada

January 3, 2013

As most of us already know, the end of the penny in Canada is coming.

The Royal Canadian Mint pressed the last of about 35 billion pennies on May 4, 2012, and will commence the task of collecting the coins from Canadian financial institutions on February 4, 2013.

While the penny will continue to be legal tender, the coins will ...

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Happy Holidays from CRS!

December 18, 2012

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Retail Council of Canada Webinars

December 4, 2012

In the case that you’ve missed one, The Retail Council of Canada is offers a list of recorded Webinars as a retailer resource on it’s website. Covering topics that range from staffing and managing to online marketing, there’s plenty of information for the watching, and something for everyone.

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CRS Office Holiday Closure Dates

November 26, 2012

The Canadian Retail Solutions Head Office will closed December 24th, 2012 to January 1st, 2013, inclusive.

During this time, there will be no administration staff available to order consumables, software or hardware. Please plan in advance for any of these circumstances.

Technical support will still be available as per your client agreement with CRS.

Please contact CRS ...

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The Quilted Duck – An Accessibility Success Story

November 14, 2012

Craig Faris, blind entrepreneur, required an accessible point-of-sale solution for his store. The software needed to work for his employees at The Quilted Duck Gift Cottage in Nanaimo, British Columbia and meet his needs as a blind person. Canadian Retail Solutions provided the solution with Retail Pro and Faris has been very happy with the results.

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November Special: HT630 Inventory Scanners

October 31, 2012

For the Month of November 2012, CRS will be offering a 20% discount on the purchase of the Unitech HT630 Physical Inventory Scanner. Get your HT630s now so you can be ready to do your New Year inventory count when ...

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Welcome to Our New Management One Clients

October 5, 2012

CRS is proud to welcome our four new Management One^® Consulting clients:

Winning@Retail is designed for independent retail businesses. It gives independent retailers a better retail planning tool than large multinational chains have ...

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