The wholefood shop has a new till, as of yesterday. So what, I hear you say. Well, perhaps I'd agree, save that it's replaced one antique with another.
No modern EPOS inventory control system here, then. No Apple Cash cloud-based stock control system using a simple iPad (which is creeping in to smaller retails, such as Cefi & the ethical shop farther along Well Street; and the newish antiques shop on Clwyd Street).
Nope, none of that at Wholefoods. Sticky price tags continue to be planted on its products and the sales assistants continue sometimes to scurry round to check prices on stock on the shelves. Just a bog-standard and basic electronic cash register that costs a mere £100 or so plus set-up. Even the manufacture, the Shin Heung Precision Co Ltd of Korea, calls this "low end". But, if it works for Wholefoods, we cannot be too critical. We should be grateful that we still have an independent health food shop.
The previous Geller machine dated back some 20 years and was on its last legs and, indeed, had broken down. Ruthin Wholefoods had been operating without a cash register for a fortnight.
The interesting thing is that Tillwise of The Park supplied both of the products. Tillwise once had a shop on Mwrog Street but is still trading from a dwelling. It's been in business since 1989—30 years.
Nope, none of that at Wholefoods. Sticky price tags continue to be planted on its products and the sales assistants continue sometimes to scurry round to check prices on stock on the shelves. Just a bog-standard and basic electronic cash register that costs a mere £100 or so plus set-up. Even the manufacture, the Shin Heung Precision Co Ltd of Korea, calls this "low end". But, if it works for Wholefoods, we cannot be too critical. We should be grateful that we still have an independent health food shop.
The interesting thing is that Tillwise of The Park supplied both of the products. Tillwise once had a shop on Mwrog Street but is still trading from a dwelling. It's been in business since 1989—30 years.
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