Buying Groups
MEGA Group USA Overview
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MEGA Group USA is a buying group with members in multiple industries, including appliances, furniture, mattresses, consumer electronics, seasonal, and outdoor merchandise categories.
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Buying Groups
Review of Furniture 1st Buying Group
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Furniture 1st National Buying Group is a cooperative buying group based in Pennsylvania.
Buying Groups
Overview of Furniture Marketing Group
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The Furniture Marketing Group (FMG) is a buying group based in North Carolina and is dedicated to bolstering the purchasing power of independent furniture retailers.
Credit Card Processing
Tablet POS Systems for Higher Checks and Faster Turnover
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Using tablets as a POS system replacement is becoming more and more popular with restaurants and bars.
Buying Groups
ProSource Review
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ProSource a member-owned amalgam of two buying groups: Pro Group and HES. Pro Group was founded in 1985 and HES was founded in 1994.
Buying Groups
Nationwide Marketing Group Review and Profile
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Nationwide Marketing Group (not to be confused with the Nationwide insurance company) touts itself America’s largest buying and marketing organization. Its 3,500 members operate over 11,000 storefronts across the US and have $15 billion in combined annual sales. Nationwide is so large that it has seven regional divisions. Each of them is led by a retail industry veteran. Nationwide is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Accounting and Finance
Calculating Margin: Determine Your Profit
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When you’re selling products and services, the way to make money looks straightforward — Sell the item for more than you paid for it and pocket the difference. That difference, the “margin”, is what you rely on to stay in business.
Business
Self Checkout: Should You Implement It?
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Self checkouts, where a customer rings up their own items, bags them, and pays without a cashier, have been implemented in many grocery chains, fast food restaurants, and chain retailers across the country, with NCR Corporation supplying 68 percent of these systems. Should you jump on the self-serve checkout train, too?