The Retail Vantage
July 2010
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Sustainability Scores and Small Business
Customer Summit 2010
Add On Software Special
Point-of-Sale Peripherals
ARMS on Facebook
Right by Nature health food market expands
Meet Our Staff
Referral Program
NRF CEO backs 2010 U.S. retail sales view
 
 
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Sustainability Scores and Small Business
By Kelly Spors   June 21, 2010 
Small companies looking to break into major retailers these days have to contend with something other than just coveted shelf space:  Their sustainability "score."
 
Increasingly, big-name corporations are assessing and selecting their suppliers based on environmental benchmarks. The concept gained traction when Wal-Mart a few years ago unveiled ambitious plans to assess suppliers using its "Sustainability Index," which considers everything from packaging materials and waste disposal to energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009, the retailer began sending 15-question assessment forms to 100,000 U.S. suppliers and plans to eventually start labeling products in the store based on their overall environmental friendliness - similar to a nutritional label on food.
 
In recent weeks, Procter & Gamble and Kaiser Permanente launched similar types of programs. (Some companies, such as Patagonia, have utilized such sustainability assessments of suppliers for a long time.)
 
Major corporations figure they have the leverage to push environmentally friendlier practices onto their suppliers, and such initiatives, of course, bolster their own reputations as a eco-conscious companies.
 
Continue Reading: http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/06/sustainability-scores-and-small-business.html
 
 
Source: Small Business Trends 
 
 
Advanced Retail Management Systems
is pleased to announce
 
Customer Summit 2010
Strategies to Succeed
 
 Thursday August 19, 2010
9:00am-5:00pm
Littleton, Colorado
 
You are cordially invited to attend our FREE training workshop
 
Join us for a full day of workshops designed to enhance your knowledge of CounterPoint SQL and to provide valuable information to help you grow your business.

You will not want to miss this opportunity. At the workshop you will learn proven techniques to help you get the most out of your CounterPoint SQL system and maximize your business potential.

Workshop topics include:
·  Understanding costs in CounterPoint SQL
·  Using the new Forecasting Module
·  Effectively managing inventory
·  25 things you didn't know you could do in CounterPoint SQL
·  How to create simple customizations
·  PCI Compliancy - what this means to you as a business owner
 
Come join us and meet other CounterPoint SQL users, ARMS staff members and our vendors.

The cost to attend the Customer Summit is FREE with a current CounterPoint SQL Subscription Service Plan (CSS). If you do not have current CSS the cost is $50.00 for the first person and $25.00 for each additional attendee.

Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided as well as refreshments throughout the day. Seating is limited so click here to register today or call Susie Carmen at (800) 305-0461, Ext. 357. Please RSVP by July 16th 2010. We look forward to seeing you at the summit.
 
 
CounterPoint SQL Add On Software Special
 

We are now offering a limited-time discount* to our existing CounterPoint SQL customers who purchase add-on software to their system. This is a great opportunity to purchase additional users and options at a 20% discount through September 21, 2010. Take advantage of this special offer to add users to your system or CounterPoint SQL options such as: Offline Ticketing, Accounts Receivables, or Serial Number Tracking.
For more information or to place an order, call Rob Freda at (800) 305-0461 Ext. 311 or contact him by E-mail at rob.freda@armsys.com


*CounterPoint Subscription Service (CSS) for the system must be current. CounterPoint Subscription Service (CSS), if applicable, must be purchased at the standard price. This offer is not valid in conjunction with other special pricing. This offer is only valid for CounterPoint systems purchased prior to May 12, 2010.

5 Great Reasons to Purchase your Point-of-Sale Peripherals from ARMS

 
Advanced Retail Management Systems (ARMS) is a reseller for high quality Point-of-Sale peripheral devices. Here are 5 great reasons to purchase your Point of Sale hardware from ARMS:

  1. Compatibility: All products are tested in house by our technicians for compatibility with Retail Pro, CounterPoint and Microsoft RMS for performance, durability, and overall quality 
  2. Equipment Ready to Ship: ARMS stocks all equipment for a fast turn around on orders and replacements
  3. One -Year Warranty: equipment purchased from ARMS comes with a 1 Year Warranty based on the date the equipment is shipped
  4. Additional 30-Day Replacement Policy:In addition to the above Warranty, ARMS will replace any Equipment found to be defective within 30 days with a new product
  5. Recent Price Reductions: 
     ·   Dell 17" Flat Screen Monitor was $224, now $169 
     ·   Unitech 2724 Dual Track Keyboard (USB) was $295, now $179
     ·   Honeywell 3800g Scanner (USB) was $399, now $249
     ·   Star Tsp743 Receipt Printer (Parallel) was $499, now $429
ARMS currently offers the following Point of Sale devices:

  • Receipt Printers
  • POS PeripheralsLaser Scanners
  • Cash Drawers
  • Radiant POS Terminals
  • MSR with MICR Wedges
  • Tag Printers 
  • Mobile Data Terminals
  • Debit Pin Pads
  • POS Scales
  • Customer Displays
  • Touch Screen Monitors 

For more information contact your Sales Consultant at (800) 305-0461 or E-mail us at insidesales@armsys.com 
 
 
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By being a fan of ARMS, you will receive information about your software including special "web only" tips & tricks that won't be given elsewhere. You'll be among the first to learn about new release and features, training opportunities, and links to interesting information on the web. Connect with the ARMS staff and our customers!

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Right by Nature health food market expands
 
ARMS CounterPoint SQL clients in the news:
 
Dear CounterPoint SQL clients and prospects:
 
This month we would like to feature one of our CounterPoint SQL clients Right By Nature who were recently featured in the April version of the NRF SmartBrief:
 
The Right By Nature Hometown Market now carries Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats cereal. It's just a shelf away from the boxes of all-natural Yogi Goji Berry Flake & Cluster.

The independent, Strip District food store has tighted some of its aisles during the past six weeks, making room among its natural and organic products for familiar, standard grocery items. A survey of customers prompted the change, said Jason Brown, lead consultant working with the business.

"Customers wanted us to be a place that could be a one-stop shop," he said, explaining the idea was to combine the best of both types of products. Customers "should be able to eat Lays potato chips with their organic root beer, if that's what they want to do.They can buy meats without antibiotics and hormones, and still drink Coca-Cola."
More expansion is coming, with a focus on delivering groceries to businesses and homes.

The 20,000-square-foot store off Smallman Street merged in recent weeks with virtual produce market Good Apples LLC. By early June, trucks used to deliver Good Apples orders to corporate offices across the region will be put into service later each day, to take Right by Nature orders to customers.

Currently, Good Apples delivers to about 40,000 customers who work at more than 300 companies including Highmark Inc. and General Nutrition Corp., based Downtown.

Right by Nature recently added outdoor seating, new signs and an area where customers can place orders ahead of time and pick them up outside the store.


Meet Our Staff 
 
Bruce Klepper
Bruce Klepper - President
 
In June 1986, Bruce started Advanced Retail Management Systems.  Now 24 years later the company is still focused on its core business of providing retailers with superior products and services for computerized Inventory Control and Point-of-Sale solutions.  Today the company supports over 2,000 retail locations from coast to coast - click here to see our US customer locations across the country.  Bruce has led the company over the years focusing on customer service as the number 1 priority.  He has also spent years building a well organized company by creating business operating plans and documenting internal business procedures.  He has a hands-on management approach and invites customers to call him with their questions or suggestions.  You can reach Bruce by E-mail at bruce.klepper@armsys.com or by phone at (800) 305-0461 Ext 301.  Bruce has a Bachelors Degree in Music Composition and Theory.  Actively involved in music, he also enjoys Colorado's varied outdoor activities.
 
Refer a Retailer

 Tell another retail store that is looking for a Point of Sale system about Advanced Retail Management Systems.  When you refer a retailer to us that participates in a 1 hour web presentation for Retail Pro, CounterPoint or Microsoft RMS, we will send you $100 - it's that simple!
 
Register your referral today.  Call Susie Carmen today at (303) 738-1800 Ext 357 or E-mail her at
susie.carmen@armsys.com
 

 


 

NRF CEO backs 2010 U.S. retail sales view
Martinne Geller
NEW YORK
Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:48pm BST
 
NRF CEOMatt Shay, President and Chief Executive of the National Retail Federation, appears at the 2010 Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit in New York June 21, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton

NEW YORK(Reuters) - U.S. retail sales are on track to rise 2.5 percent this year despite lingering unemployment and economic uncertainty, the head of the nation's premier retail trade group said on Monday.
 

In January, the National Retail Federation had forecast a 2.5 percent rise for 2010, as the industry comes out of its worst slump in decades. Speaking at the Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit in New York, NRF Chief Executive Matthew Shay affirmed that forecast.

 
"Based on what we saw in the first four or five months of the year, I think we're right on track," said Shay, who has been in the job for five months.
"We feel confident that 2.5 percent is the right number."
 
"That reflects a market in which there's a high degree of uncertainty and we're going to see things going a little bit sideways from now for the rest of the year," Shay said.
 
He added that the trade group would have more data to support its forecast following the upcoming back-to-school shopping season.
 
Retailers' bets on future consumption can often be measured by how much merchandise they order upfront.
 
In general, Shay said retailers remained "very sensitive" about how much inventory they were willing to take on, in order to avoid a repeat performance from late 2008 and early 2009, when they were forced to offer steep, profit-sapping discounts to move unsold merchandise.
 
"The big issue for us is what's going on economically with jobs, with housing, with access to credit -- and that obviously impacts consumer confidence levels and consumer spending," Shay said. And to the extent that the European debt crisis affects U.S. equity markets, he said it also impacts U.S. consumer spending.
 
"I think that it does have a psychological effect, at some level," he said.
 
Source:
Reuters
 
 
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