Understanding your Point of Sale System Reports How do you, as a retailer, take the information from your POS reports about where you are and use it to chart a path to where you want to go? Imagine that you’re walking through a mall, and you need to find a particular store. You wander over […]
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What is your inventory really worth? How much you paid for it? How you priced it? Understanding the true value of your inventory is critical to your success. Retailers continue to make the age-old mistake of valuing their inventory based on what they paid for it rather than what they can sell it for. […]
Disaster Recovery dis·as·ter [dih-zas-ter, -zah-ster] noun a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure. After being in business as long as we have, it is unfortunate that we have seen damage and even business failure due to complete […]
Do you have a Moneris integrated pin pad? If your Moneris pin pad is plugged directly into your computer via USB or Serial, this change could affect you. We have been notified that Moneris is requiring an update to the EFT part of your Retail Pro V8.6 system by June 30. The geek terminology is […]
So you’ve hit year end. Your accountant has finished your taxes and your income statement looks great. So why does it feel like such a challenge to deal with the month-to-month expenses of running your retail store? The Retail Consultants at CRS see this all the time. We meet business owners with viable businesses and […]
CRS is happy to welcome our newest Management One® Winning@Retail clients, Mountain Air Clothing of Jasper, AB and The Hockey Shop of Surrey, BC. Mountain Air Clothing has been providing Men’s and Women’s fashions, footwear and accessories along with smart advice since 1983. The Hockey Shop began as a humble Mom and Pop operation in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 began collecting the coins from Canadian financial institutions on February 4, 2013. While the penny will continue to be legal tender, the coins will […]