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The Best Practices for Marketing Your Grocery Store – 10 Practices for 2021
Grocery store owners can often overlook the importance of marketing their store. Because groceries are essential, many people don’t consider advertising grocery stores. However, grocers need to market their stores effectively to grow. Without an...
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8 Grocery Store SEO Tips For 2021
Most grocery stores have websites these days. To stay ahead of the competition, you have to have somewhere customers can go to find information about your store. But how do you bring in real business through your website? Search engine optimization is essential for...
Grocers’ Community Involvement Through SNAP Incentives
For Americans that need support for purchasing groceries, there is SNAP. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program helps families and individuals afford a basic diet by providing modest benefits that are used to buy food. Grocers benefit from customers that use...
Alternatives to Microsoft RMS – a better POS System.
Moving to a new POS system for your grocer store is scary. Your POS is the heart of your store, so you have to make sure that your new one meets all of your grocery needs. You have to plan and prepare by looking into various features and benefits, researching...
How the Pandemic Facilitated Increased Adoption of Three Existing Technologies in Retail
Since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the U.S., the retail industry has been turned on its head. With stay-at-home orders and lockdowns in place, all nonessential retailers were closed, pushing most of the transactions online. Today, as all U.S. states are...
The Best POS Solution for Butchers
An often-overlooked section of grocers is butchers. Their businesses have overlapping needs with grocery stores, though with more specific requirements. However, many POS providers do not address the needs of butcher shops, even when offering grocery-specific...
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How Grocery Store Owners Can Prepare for Their Busiest Holidays
Holidays are notoriously busy times for grocery stores. Grocers prepare months ahead of time for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and the Fourth, as they will be packed for days, or even weeks, before the actual holiday. Knowing how to anticipate and meet your...
How Grocery Stores Are Setting an Example for Operating in a COVID World.
Online shopping is dramatically on the rise since the start of the pandemic. In any channel, consumers are overwhelmingly opting for the safety of contactless payment over traditional methods. By the end of April this year, the number of online grocery orders had...
How to keep new COVID customers & sales high for independent grocers.
Grocery Store Customer Loyalty After COVID When restaurants started closing in late March, consumers had to turn to grocers for their meals. In addition to that, customers were looking for extra household supplies, like disinfectant and toilet paper. Such a sudden...