Create more sales opportunities
Smart suggestions from Futura’s intuitive EPOS and retail management system now enable fashion companies to suggest bundles of different product lines. For example, chinos, shoes and accessories can be set up in the system as combinations to promote the latest collection or a new range. The clever technology that supports links to different product lines empowers the sales assistant to suggest other lines which complement the customer’s initial choice, thereby creating greater opportunity to up sell in store. British menswear brand Steel and Jelly, previously…
Not all doom & gloom
Spring has been a tough time for UK retail with the sad news first of British Home Stores (BHS) and then, almost immediately after, Austin Read the gentlemen’s tailoring brand, both tumbling into Administration. Of course these aren’t the only retail failures over the last months, but they stand out for being two of the most enduring and well known high street brands. Fortunately, not all retail failures end this way and some have risen, Phoenix-like from the ashes. T J Hughes, the much-loved Merseyside…
Designer brand Santoro steps onto the high-street
You could be forgiven if you haven’t come across the London design house Santoro, which started life in 1983 not far from London’s Carnaby Street. But girls, and mums with daughters everywhere, will surely recognise some of the celebrated gifts and accessories that have driven the company’s success – the Gorjus range of bags, accessories and stationery for instance, the Kori Kumi collection or the Mirabelle range. Until now Santoro’s range of gifts and designer-led products, covering bags and accessories, gifts and stationery, as well…
Boosting customer experience in-store and online
A raft of new possibilities at RBTE – see us on stand No 556. It’s that time of year again! Retail Business Technology Expo, the top UK retail technology event opens this week at Olympia, offering you the best chance to get close to some of the latest tech developments and we are gearing up to showcase a range of new features and releases. Our focus is very firmly on how we can help lifestyle, department store and fashion brands like you improve the customer experience…
This year’s roundup from Futura
– Tina Royall reviews how customer feedback has helped to shape EPOS developments It’s been an exciting year for Futura as more and more retail brands use our EPOS and inventory control systems to support their growing businesses. New clients include Saltrock, a north Devon lifestyle brand; Santoro, a global retailer of design-led gifts and apparel; Steel and Jelly, a contemporary menswear brand; and Max 99p, one of the UK’s newest fixed-price retailers. Our long-standing client, Cath Kidston, has expanded into Japan using Futura4POS to consolidate its…