The Resnicks kicked in their marketing efforts, focusing on regional television and point-of-sale advertising.
Trying to compete in point-of-sale technology also seems nutty, given how crowded that space already is.
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It bases such decisions on data collected with a point-of-sale system connected to every cash register.
That first computerized register, known as a point-of-sale, or POS, system, wasn't hooked into the Internet.
Square hopes to replace to cash registers and point-of-sale terminals, challenging companies like Verifone that make them.
Looking at Point-of-Sale (POS) data gives a rear-view mirror view of what consumers want and have bought.
The IDC report said it expects that NFC will become the most-popular payment platform, followed by point-of-sale payments.
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Square, a startup led by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey, is also trying to rework the point-of-sale process.
Point-of-Sale (POS) mobile payments where a smart phone becomes the authentication device to complete a transaction at checkout.
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Ltd. and point-of-sale equipment maker Roam to advance use of its mobile-payments technology.
Medical devices, ATM machines, point-of-sale registers, airplanes, televisions, automobiles, this is the operating system that is running in those devices.
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Already driving WMT suppliers to improve performance, in the future the index could appear on a point-of-sale label for products.
Square Register serves as a full point-of-sale system for businesses to accept payments, track inventory, and share menu and location information.
Retailers loved the distinctive kangaroo and the brightly colored point-of-sale displays that Casella Wines shipped with the first batch of bottles.
We are looking for ways to expand mobile phone banking and to use local merchants to accept deposits through point-of-sale terminals.
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And within the category, only Turtle Beach is delivering a robust retail point-of-sale presence, with superior product packaging and in-store kiosks.
Targeting point-of-sale devices with malicious software is standard practice, as the wave of retail hackings over the last few years have shown.
Fitted with a card reader, tablets can serve as mobile point-of-sale terminals.
The mobile payment system allows the use of any smartphone or iPad as a point-of-sale terminal and is aimed at small businesses.
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Micros Systems focuses on the restaurant, hotel and entertainment industries, for which it makes hardware (such as point-of-sale terminals) and management software.
Is it a coincidence that the average number of items sold and the average selling price both increased after implementing mobile point-of-sale devices?
The announcement comes as Visa predicts that the number of contactless point-of-sale terminals in the UK will rise by 50% to 150, 000 this year.
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Using that point-of-sale data, for example, Casey's cut way back on candy items and made more room for sugary caffeine drinks (like Red Bull).
The biffle marketplace then offers price-competitive vendors a steady flow of purchase orders without any channel conflict, since vendor participation at point-of-sale is anonymous.
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Customers use Euronet's software and payment system to buy airtime on the phone itself, at ATMs, or at point-of-sale locations in places like grocery stores.
Customers who need more than point-of-sale cash discounts to inspire loyalty will find that car makers are trying to offer more value in other areas.
To accept NFC payments or even 2-D barcodes like those used by Starbucks retailers will have to make an investment in new point-of-sale terminals.
And software suppliers are preparing for a different revenue model: instead of chunks of licence fees at point-of-sale, monthly-usage fees will trickle in from their customers.
Breadcrumb POS, which is the official name of yesterday's leaked point-of-sale iPad app, is now officially available, bringing a simple interface and a handful of financial incentives.
Which it has: simply put there has been a world of innovation in point-of-sale technology and concepts that seems to have swept by Apple, of all companies.
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