July 2017 Newsletter
BRdata World 2017 BRdata World is September 17-20 and less than seven weeks away! We hope you can join us at this exciting event. By attending, you will spend three days listening, learning, and connecting with the best in the independent grocery industry. With over 100 attendees representing several thousand grocery stores, 15 customer case studies, hands-on workshops, and a Tech Pavilion showcasing the latest in cutting-edge technology – BRdata World will fundamentally change the way your organization does business. Discover how your peers are competing in the continuously changing...
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BRdata E-commerce Platform With the recent announcements in the grocery retail industry, every retailer should be considering implementing an e-commerce platform for customers to shop at their store online. There are many options to choose from, but the biggest challenge is providing accurate data to your e-commerce website. Our e-commerce solution, BRdata Collect, solves this difficult problem. Several retailers have adopted BRdata Collect. The prevalent reason is gaining peace of mind knowing that your essential item, price, location, inventory, and point of sale data will be seamlessly...
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Scan Based Trading Our grocery retail customers are more frequently participating in scan based trading with their vendor partners. With scan based trading, the vendor owns the product in the grocery retailer’s store until it is sold to the consumer, therefore, they are paid based on item movement instead of purchases. Benefits of this exchange include reduced cost of inventory and reduction in non-sellable products. BRdata Host or Store can automate sales data transmissions to vendors and the creation of receipts for vendor payment. The process is most commonly used with perishable...
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Production Planning Our newest addition to BRdata Cloud reporting can assist you with sales building and shrink management. Woods Supermarkets, a twelve store supermarket chain with two c-stores based in Missouri, requested this report to use in their Deli and Bakery departments. According to Sam Blaiss, Woods’ COO, “the new tool should help us increase sales on our feature items and have significant positive impact on reducing shrink. We’ll be able to identify the items that are causing the shrink as opposed to hurting sales caused by an associate cutting back on everything to fix...
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BRdata Cloud App We’re pleased to announce the release of the BRdata Cloud App. Now BRdata Cloud retailers can query item sales information for their store or entire chain with an intuitive app. This release is just the beginning as we envision the BRdata Cloud App replacing the functionality of the traditional Windows handheld store devices. Retailers are no longer confined to their network, as the potential exists for any information available in BRdata Host or Store databases to be made available on any Apple or Android device. The app is available today in Google Play for Android and...
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Digital Coupons As many retailers and wholesalers continue to entrust their cloud, e-commerce, consumer app, and loyalty needs to BRdata, we are pleased to expand our end to end solution by now offering digital coupons. Our digital coupons are supplied by Quotient, who delivers personalized digital grocery coupons and targeted media every day from their unmatched shopper data and network of more than 60,000 stores. Independent grocery retailers can engage their customers, build on their relationships, and create value by providing targeted digital manufacturer coupons in their BRdata...
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