Apparently not whoever was programming the point of sale system for K-Mart.
Any business with a point of sale system, which pretty much means any small business in the retail or restaurant industry, will be using devices like the ones made by Ziosk within the next few years.
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The Starbucks associate selects mobile as the tender in the point of sale system (POS), and prompts the consumer to use the customer facing imager (the same as those used in airports to read boarding passes).
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With a mobile point of sale system, the tax rates can be automatically determined using GPS. But more than that, the location of every transaction can also be captured and used in business analytics, allowing merchants to better target the locations where they will sell their goods or services.
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It bases such decisions on data collected with a point-of-sale system connected to every cash register.
Square Register serves as a full point-of-sale system for businesses to accept payments, track inventory, and share menu and location information.
Square Register serves as a free full point-of-sale system for businesses to accept payments, track inventory, and monitor daily reports, empowering them to make smart decisions for their business.
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The CTO did not believe that AirTag could build a mobile application that would work with its Point of Sale (POS) system.
That first computerized register, known as a point-of-sale, or POS, system, wasn't hooked into the Internet.
They point to a similar system which operates to regulate the sale of kosher food.
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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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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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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.
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