Point of Sale

7-Eleven Readies Its Wilson Farms Buyout For Franchisees

The world’s largest convenience store franchiser, 7-Eleven, is nearing completion of prepping stores from its 2011 Wilson Farms store chain at a store franchising sale in Western New York. Part of the company’s national strategy, 7-Eleven purchased the 188-store Wilson Farms chain and shed some 30 stores through auction, closed others and prepared the 90

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FroyoWorld Continues Their Expansion in Australia

FroyoWorld and Sintel Systems have grown through their partnership since FroyoWorld opened its first store in 2010 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The company introduced the concept of self-serve frozen yogurt to Connecticut, and received an overwhelming amount of support from the community. Since then, expansion has been inevitable. FroyoWorld now has become

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Millennials Give Mobile Payments Some Traction

Although still rare, mobile payments — the use of phones to make in-store payments — are gaining plenty of attention, and many industry observers are seeing technical developments almost certain to reshape the payments landscape. Writing for TheFinancialBrand.com, Jim Marous provides a terrific summary of the initiatives by Apple Pay, CurrentC, Softcard and other mobile

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Best Practices For Securing The Point Of Sale

As news about retail point of sale (POS) breaches continues unabated, information about how to better protect customers, and reputations, becomes paramount. The information technology channel observer Business Solutions Magazine (BSMinfo.com) ran a recent guest column by Andrew Bagrin, Founder and CEO, My Digital Shield is on topic in this regard, but his focus is

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A Franchisee Discovers The Fine Print's Finer Points

Franchising continues to be an attractive career change consideration for many Americans, in part because of proven business plans and methods. Therefore, it is imperative that potential franchisees understand what it takes to be successful within a given chain’s franchising framework. Just as we happily share our vast point of sale experience and expertise with

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