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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
- 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
- Equipment Ready to Ship:
ARMS stocks all equipment for a fast turn around
on orders and replacements
- One -Year Warranty:
equipment purchased from ARMS comes with a 1
Year Warranty based on the date the equipment is
shipped
- 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
- 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
Laser 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
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By being a fan of ARMS, you will receive
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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.
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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
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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
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NRF CEO backs 2010 U.S. retail
sales view Martinne
Geller NEW YORK Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:48pm
BST
Matt
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.
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