Category Archives: Retail News

Covid19-Blog

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Covid-19

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text] A message from our CEO & Director of Retail Planning, Dan Holman   Friends & Family, Well, to say the last week (or so) has been scary is an understatement. Our livelihoods […]

Retail Pro PRISM – Returns

Retail Your Way with Retail Pro Prism With Prism’s powerful customizable UI you can create desired workflows reflecting your business process and brand without compromises so you can focus on transforming shopper experiences. Benefits of a modular Platform Freedom from venue/location limitations You decide which modules are deployed across your environments Reap full benefits of […]

Retail Pro PRISM – Sales

Retail Your Way with Retail Pro Prism With Prism’s powerful customizable UI you can create desired workflows reflecting your business process and brand without compromises so you can focus on transforming shopper experiences. Benefits of a modular Platform Freedom from venue/location limitations You decide which modules are deployed across your environments Reap full benefits of […]

Canadian Retail Solutions CEO launches The Wealthy Retailer™

Canadian Retail Solutions CEO, Dan Holman launches The Wealthy Retailer™. A company dedicated to creating retail “wealth” for independent retailers throughout North America. When asked why, Holman responded “I have spent more than 25 years on the bipolar roller coaster of entrepreneurialism. Through that time, I have recognized my own peaks and valleys follow the very […]

Retail resurrection: How the physical shopping experience is more important than ever

During the dawn of online retailing when eBay catapulted onto the scene in the late ’90s, people were already predicting the death of brick-and-mortar stores. This was even before Amazon was a household name. Yet, despite what some have viewed as a retail apocalypse in the wake of the rise of ecommerce, The Brick believes […]

Why some retailers shine with their POS software

We have been installing and supporting retail software for a long time now, and we have had the pleasure of working with many companies during our almost 30 years in business. During that time, we have seen companies thrive with their POS software while others barely use theirs. Here are 5 ways to excel with […]

7 Tips to Sales Success

7 Tips to Sales Success #1:  Building the “Buyer-Seller” Relationship.  You need to develop a better understanding of the buying process that customers actually follow – the real decisions they make, and when they are made. Then you need to match your sales process with the customer’s buying process.  When this is done, you begin […]

Are you over-invested?

Are you over invested? I was recently reminded of the concept of “Sunk Cost Bias” and how this state of mind is so relevant to how we sometimes function as retailers. Sunk Cost Bias is when our decisions are tainted by the emotional time, effort and in many cases money we have put into a […]

DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE!

DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE! Barry Schwartz has a wonderful TED talk titled “The paradox of choice”. One of the significant takeaways from this concept is that too much choice is not always a good thing! Have you heard any of these phrases before: “ I need to properly represent the line” “ Having these items […]