Costcutter

Costcutter has signed a deal with DigiPoS Systems for the award winning Retail Blade to be used as an integral part of the Costcutter PoS solution. The hardware will support Costcutter’s in-house software solution ‘C-PoS’.

Costcutter engaged the leading retail solutions provider 18 months ago to trial Retail Blade across 100 of its sites. At the start of the trial an initial 300 sites were earmarked by the retailer as a first wave for installation with a projected implementation schedule across 100 sites per year. It is estimated that 500-600 Retail Blades will be in place by the end of 2006.

Initially the integrated PoS system will provide a point of consistency across the different sites – franchises, licensed formats and Costcutter managed. Additionally, the Costcutter PoS system is fully integrated with the organisations head office system meaning that promotions can be controlled from a single point saving time for the individual retailers.

Kevin Widdrington, Director of IT at Costcutter states: “With the majority of our sites being franchises it was imperative that we could offer a complete PoS package that would offer our franchisees long term stability.”

With upgrading PoS being Widdrington’s first major area of focus when taking on the role of Director of IT 12 months ago he chose the innovative Retail Blade as: “More than any of its competitors Retail Blade not only offered a smoother system for the retailer but also allows for increased maintenance efficiency and greatly reduced down time which benefits everyone.”

The deal marks a significant move for DigiPoS and the Retail Blade product as the company’s first foray into grocery. Existing customers and advocates of the Retail Blade include Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Next and the Mosaic Fashion group - all falling into the apparel or department store category.

Speaking about the deal Ian Patterson, MD of DigiPoS said: “We have always had full confidence that the Retail Blade would provide organisations across the different retail verticals with real time cost and maintenance benefits. We hope that the confirmation of this deal with Costcutter will be the beginnings of the Retail Blade success story within the grocery sector.”