Software for Groceries / Supermarkets
IT Retail, has been delivering software solutions to retailers worldwide for the last 16 years. With over 4800 stores in 20 countries, IT Retail has some of the largest retailers in the world. It was designed by grocers for grocer's and still holds to its roots. IT Retail is currently serving grocery chains, convenience stores, and independent grocers with a wide variety of solutions. Today, IT Retail's grocery POS software is best known for its broad, all inclusive feature base, strategically combined with an intuitive easy to learn and understand user interface.
We provide enterprise-wide open software solutions that are
designed to enable food retailers in the supermarket, convenience store and
other retail market sectors to respond to competitive market requirements and
changing consumer preferences. Our software solutions cover a wide range of
retail applications, including easy-to-use, comprehensive point-of-sale and back
office store systems that may be combined with the corporate host system. Our
solutions are designed to be highly flexible, scalable, reliable and simple to
deploy and use. And our full compliment of IT services provides our customers
with even greater peace of mind knowing that, unlike other software
manufactures, IT Retail will be there when it counts as a trusted partner
working with you, helping your business to grow and thrive.
IT Retail is committed to continuing its leadership in
providing quality solutions, products and services to the retailing industry for
years to come. You can count on it.
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Our hardware offerings for RETAIL.
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Software for Restaurants
Simplicity for All Restaurants and Bars
Restaurant and bar operators are faced with complex and mission critical responsibilities such as point of sale, payment processing, inventory control, financial accountability, customer tracking, labor management, kitchen productivity, and much more everyday.
In the busy quest for success, time becomes a valuable commodity among restaurant operators. The ability to simplify and streamline operations not only helps increase the bottom line, but also yields the greatly desired leisure time for family and friends.
Aldelo For Restaurants Pro is the ideal point of sale and store management solution to help simplify operations for all table service restaurants, quick service restaurants and bars.
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System Requirements
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Quickbooks Accounts Payable Interface for RETAIL Professional
In our earlier post we highlighted our Quickbooks Sales and Deposits interface for RETAIL Professional. In this post we are presenting our Quickbooks AP interface. Invoices processed RETAIL Professional's receiving module can be exported to Quickbooks Accounts Payables for processing.
The screen below shows a sample invoice entered into RETAIL.
This screen allows setup of vendors and their terms before exporting to Quickbooks.
This screen displays all unexported invoices in RETAIL.
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Quickbooks Interface for RETAIL Professional
Quickbooks is a popular account package. It is easy to use and powerful enough to run a supermarket/grocery.
Simpleware has developed an interface for RETAIL Professional. This app exports sales and deposits from RETAIL to Quickbooks using its IIF file format.
The screen below is our book keepers report. This report summarizes the sales and balances it against tenders collected at the POS. In the image there are numbers the correspond the data that our app exports to Quickbooks.
1. This screen allows you to map the department sales from RETAIL to Quickbooks revenue accounts.
2. This screen allows you to map the tenders from RETAIL to Quickbooks bank accounts.
3. This screen allows you to map the sales taxes collected from RETAIL to a Quickbooks liability account.
4. This screen allows you to map the cashier over and short figure from RETAIL to Quickbooks expense accounts.
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The case for an AIO (all in one) computer at the check out.
When we sell RETAIL Professional for Microsoft Windows, our standard configuration is a desktop type PC, usually a DELL Optiplex , configured with either a POS keyboard or a touch screen monitor.
Not too long ago, we added the Pioneer S-Line, which comes with a built in receipt printer and a touchscreen. The unit is compact and attractive, it is perfect for stores where counter space is scarce.
We recommend this unit for stores with 1 to 3 lanes because this configuration brings great value by combing 3 separate pieces of equipment into 1 unit.
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| Display | 15" LCD, Active matrix TFT, 1024x768 |
| Touchscreen | Resistive, InfraRed, Capacitive |
| Spill-proof | Yes (front panel) |
| Processor | Intel Atom 1.6GHz, Dual Core 1.9GHz, Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz |
| Memory | 1GB, 2GB, 3GB, 4GB (only on Dual Core/Core 2 Duo models) |
| Storage | 80GB SATA Hard Drive, 4GB Compact Flash |
| Operating System | XP Prof, WePOS, POS Ready, XP embedded, Windows 7, Linux |
| Network/Ethernet | Intel 10/100/1000 BaseT. Option: Wifi RF802.11 a/g/n Supports vPro (iAMT 4.0) on Dual Core/Core 2 Duo models |
| Serial Ports | 4 |
| Parallel Port | Optional |
| USB 2.0 | 6 |
| Powered USB | +12V, +24V |
| 2nd VGA | 1 (supports dual view) |
| Printer (built-in, field-replacable) | EPSON® 3" Thermal with autocut Speed : 250mm (9.8") per second Driver : Epson ESC/POS, Windows, OPOS Interface : Serial or USB Paper Width : 80mm / 3.125", Diameter : 80mm / 3.125" |
| Cash Drawer Port | Optional (Epson emulation, +24V) |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 14.5 (16.25 with MSR) x 15.0 x 13.0inches |
| Weight | 26 lbs |
| Operating Temperature | 0° C to 40° C, 20% to 80% Humidity |
| Power Supply | 150W, AC 100-240V |
| Integrated Add-ons | Mag. Stripe Reader Biometric Reader (Digital Persona U.R.U) 2x20 Rear Display 2nd LCD Display (8" or 10") |
Grocer Builds his own software to run his store
In the early nineties Martin Goodwin was not a happy grocer. His current systems was hard to use and took a lot of effort to provide useful information. With the help of his friend Bob Henry, he decide to create his own system using Microsoft technology, because he really liked the ease of use and integration offered by the Microsoft Office suite. From his efforts came RETAIL Professional for Microsoft Windows.
Hear the story from Martin himself.
Smile your produce is on camera.
If you can't tell a granny smith apple from a red delicious apple, Fujitsu is on your side. They are integrating image recognition to their self checkout units.
THEY'RE the last item in your basket, apples. But when you're using self-checkout at the supermarket it can take forever trying to pick the right variety from a list on the screen.
It would be much easier if the machine could identify them itself, and that is Toshiba's aim.
Its system, developed by Susumu Kubota and his team at Toshiba's research centre in Kawasaki, Japan, uses a webcam, image recognition and machine-learning software to identify loose goods, such as fruit. The company claims the system can tell apart products that look virtually identical, by picking up slight differences in colour and shape, or even faint markings on the surface.
When shoppers want to buy, say, apples at existing self-service checkouts they must choose the right product from a long list of pictures on a screen. Toshiba's technology, part of which was presented last year at the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision in Chersonissos, Greece, compares the image captured by the webcam against a database of images and detailed information on the item's appearance. The software uses an algorithm to produce a list of pictures of similar items, with its choice for the closest match at the top. If this choice is the correct one, the checkout user presses a button to confirm the purchase.
Going once going twice sold!!!
Priceline gives deals on hotels and cars. Intesource does it for B2B. Price Chopper supermarkets has been fattening the bottom line using reverse auctions for supplies and other backoffice needs.
REVERSE AUCTIONS have long been a staple of the Internet, allowing fast and efficient bidding exercises resulting in lower prices for products and services. Price Chopper Supermarkets, Schenectady, N.Y., is among the retailers that have employed this e-procurement process to drive down the cost of products resold in their stores as well as equipment used to run their stores.
For the past three years, the chain, which operates 128 stores in the Northeast, has tapped the reverse auction and aggregation capabilities of TopSource, Braintree, Mass., a division of Topco Associates, and a reverse auction service from Intesource, Phoenix. This year, the chain will do as many as 200 reverse auctions between the two services, the majority through Intesource.
“It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality,” said Mark Chandler, Price Chopper's vice president, supply chain. “If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.”
Price Chopper has used Intesource to procure not-for-resale items, such as office supplies, refrigeration equipment, shopping bags, transportation services, and HR software. Intesource is also a source of for-resale perishable products including bakery, produce, seafood, meat and floral.
Price Chopper also leverages TopSource's reverse auction capabilities, which are part of their aggregated buying efforts consolidating the buying power of multiple Topco-member food retailers. Through TopSource, Price Chopper has been able to procure such not-for-resale items as IT equipment, walk-in coolers, packaging, gloves, food trays, cups and lids.
Tea worth its weight in gold
$30,000/Kg for Tea? Thats 13,636/lb for the metrically challenged. Wow.
Worried gold has topped out? Don’t trust the stock market? Can’t raise the money for real estate?
Some in China claim to have the tonic for your investment blues.
In a new special report (transcript in Chinese), China’s state broadcaster CCTV delves into the stunning rise of dahongpao, a once obscure tea from the southern coastal province of Fujian that has suddenly become one of the country’s hottest commodities. Literally.
Prices of dahongpao, a newly popular type of tea grown in China’s Fujian province, have skyrocketed, rising to as much as $30,000 per kilogram.
Since the middle of last year, the report says, prices of certain types of dahongpao have increased tenfold. According to one expert interviewed by CCTV, the wholesale price for mid-range varieties of the tea has risen from between 200 and 400 yuan to around 4,000 yuan per kilogram, with retail prices reaching 20,000 yuan or more. CCTV found one retail shop in the Fujian city of Xiamen that claimed to be selling one variety for 200,000 yuan, or roughly $30,000, per kilogram.
“I never thought it would get so expensive,” CCTV quotes tea producer Wu Zongyan as saying. “It’s one price one day, another price another day. Between when we pick the leaves and when it’s ready to sell, the price has already gone up.”
The dahongpao phenomenon mirrors in exaggerated form the burgeoning demand in China for high-end French wines. In both cases, high prices suggest buyers aren’t in it for the sipping pleasure but instead are purchasing the beverages as an investment.
Be green and close the door
With energy costs going up, it just makes sense to put does on deli cases.
One of the enduring questions in the supermarket industry is whether open refrigerated dairy and other medium-temperature cases should have doors.
Retailers save energy by enclosing these cases with doors, but some chains, especially in their operations and merchandising departments, fear that doors would deter impulse sales of refrigerated items. But speakers at the Food Marketing Institute's Energy & Store Development Conference in Minneapolis last month presented evidence that stores would benefit from refrigerated cases with doors.
In one session, Bryan Becker, professor, mechanical engineering, and Brian Fricke, assistant professor, mechanical engineering, both with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, presented the results of their study of the door question. The study was funded by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Institute.
They found that while an open display case consumed about 1.3 times more energy than a doored display case, there was no significant difference in sales between the two cases. Doored cases “had no effect” on the sales of both dairy products and beer, said Becker. They also concluded that the doored cases exhibited less product temperature variation within the case or due to store conditions, resulting in increased food safety.