Retail Trends

What's Your Supply Chain Reaction?

We are reminded from time to time how retail store owners are wise to keep an eye on real estate investing trends. As an example, consider this recent article in National Real Estate Investor (NREI) titled, “What Retail Estate Investors Need to Know About the Transforming Retail Supply Chain.” E-commerce and brick-and-mortar stores, once competing sales channels, […]

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Sintel Systems @ 2013 Food Truck Business Expo

July 20, 2013 – Sintel Systems, a leading point of sale (POS) organization offering systems to the food truck industry, exhibited its newest POS at the 2013 Food Truck Business Expo in Los Angeles. Providing expert knowledge on the benefits of our mobile point of sale system, Sintel Systems discusses with prospective and current food

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Mid Market Neighborhood in San Francisco Making a Turn Around

Columnist Herb Caen once referred to the Mid Market, a neighborhood in San Francisco as “le grand pissoir.” The neighborhood is well known for its homeless inhabitants. But, it looks like it might be making a turn around. An article by the San Francisco Business Times  titled “Mid Market retail starting to catch up”, discusses

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The Company Website is Making a Comeback

While a company’s social media presence is extremely important these days the company website is becoming popular once again.   An article on Wired.com states: “The comeback is bolstered by new interlinks that make it increasingly easy for websites to suck in and selectively repurpose some of the very social content that diminished the open

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Analyzing Brand Loyalty for your Restaurant or Retail Store

Brand loyalty is extremely important for every restaurant and retail store big or small. Brand Keys recently released their 2013 Customer Loyalty Engagement Index, which forecasts customer devotion across brands. To make such predictions there is a lot of math involved and highly secretive algorithms.  Brand Keys states they are “the only research consultancy in

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Is PayPal's Mobile Payment System a Good Thing?

Is PayPal’s Mobile Payment System a Good Thing? Mobile Point of Sale Systems is all the rage. The newest company to join the race is PayPal. PayPal is already well known for their mobile payment solutions for Smartphones. At the beginning of this year, they launched a mobile payment version for the iPad. PayPal is

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Restaurant Closing Time: A Moving Target?

Restaurant Closing Time: A Moving Target? When does a restaurant really close? In a classic case of “we said, they said,” a San Francisco quick-serve restaurateur contacted Inside Scoop at SFGate with a conundrum about how to handle late-arriving diners and perceptions of “closing time.” After an incident where diners arrived three minutes before official

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