Citizen Systems America Corporation, a leading manufacturer of world-class printing technology, is proud to announce the release of the new CT-S601IIR Re-stick, liner-free receipt printer. This efficient and highly sought-after printer technology offers Citizen’s North and South American customers the newest addition to the company’s point-of-sale category. The CT-S601IIR was previewed at the National Retail Federation trade show in New York City from Jan 12-14th, 2020. The re-stick, liner-free model is now available for purchase through approved distribution partners.

In response to the evolving application uses in food service, retail and the general point-of-sale market, Citizen has optimized the always reliable CT-S601II point-of-sale printer and included technology focused specifically on re-stick, liner-free application uses.

The CT-S601IIR comes equipped with a standard USB and offers multiple advanced connectivity options and top of class efficiency with speeds up to 175mm/s. When compared to similar models in the industry, the CT-S601IIR is faster in pure print speed and smaller in overall footprint. Perfect for retail, kitchen and specialty order counters.

“Re-stick, liner-free printing has shown immense value in the food service industry and specialty retail. The ability to remove and place the non-permanent label on short use surfaces, multiple times, has seen an increase demand in recent years,” said Glenn Williams, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Citizen. “Demand for this technology has been specifically increasing in applications, including but not limited to, food service uses such as custom to-go orders, coffee counter order labeling, and cafeteria food service delivery slips in a range of application spaces.”

The CT-S601IIR is certified with MAXStick and NAKAGAWA MFG. CO. media. Coated in either full, center, double sided edge, 3 stripe(58mm) and 4 stripe (80mm) adhesive, the media is suitable across multiple applications.

Among other products in Citizen’s POS family line, the CT-S601IIR continues to provide the market a leading, eco-friendly printer, eliminating waste in multiple ways. The ability to print this specialty label stock to the exact length needed, and not beyond, limits the amount of paper used for the receipt/ticket. As well, unlike linered label printing, the liner-free media used by the CT-S601IIR completely eliminates the backing liner from labels, allowing for more sustainable printing and far less waste.

Linga has announced that its flagship product, the Linga rOS (restaurant and retail operating system), will now share its premium set of enterprise features with hotel properties using Oracle’s OPERA PMS or Micros’ Fidelio PMS. Enterprise features like its award-winning point of sales, mobile ordering, loyalty programs, employee scheduling, text alerts, self-order kiosks, central kitchen management, payment processing, inventory management, among others, will function seamlessly on the two leading property management systems.

“Managing a restaurant is much easier, faster and efficient”

“The goal of integrating Linga rOS with two of the largest and most-used hotel and resort management platforms was to offer solutions that made managing a hotel/restaurant business easier, faster, and more efficient for guests and staff. Integrating Linga with OPERA PMS and Micros’ Fidelio synchronizes data between the two systems and will bring hotels up to date with the latest trends in cloud point of sales technology and increase the efficiency of the hotels,” says Linga CEO Onur Haytac.

Linga offers a large number of services to provide better results

Oracle Micros, a global leader in PMS solutions, offers a cloud-based, mobile-enabled platform for next-generation hotel and resort property management. Users of the OPERA Cloud hotel property management system can now pair seamlessly with Linga rOS technologies. Integrating with Linga provides hotels and resorts with a cloud-based restaurant operating system that includes workflow and business automation, real-time data, and connections to powerful hubs for CRM, human capital management, inventory, finance, and more.

At Euroshop 2020, the leading Electronic Shelf Label company Pricer will announce Pricer Plaza, an architecture and set of services enabling new business models for store digitalization along with new key shelf edge products and partnerships. This architecture extends Pricer’s already widely successful real-time store efficiency and enhanced customer engagement infrastructure incorporating a series of innovative new products and technologies.

Pricer is announcing a new management system infrastructure that enables private cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) business models. Based on Pricer’s widely deployed central management software, Pricer Plaza comprises a suite of services that provide sophisticated management of the in-store infrastructure and services that act as the key foundation for advanced store digitalization functionality such as but not limited to:                     

• Sophisticated dynamic price and promotion implementation,            
• Advanced replenishment,            
• Shelf imaging and optimization           
• “Click and collect” services           
• In-store geo-location for advanced customer experience

Pricer Plaza also provides a series of advanced APIs and services enabling ecosystem partners to rapidly and effectively implement additional capabilities. At Euroshop, Pricer will be hosting demonstrations such as:           

• Qopius – AI-Powered Shelf Monitoring software for Retailers using images captured by Pricer Shelf Vision (see below).          
• Whywaste – a sophisticated but easy to use tool for expiration date management. Already installed by numerous retailers globally it has effectively decreased their food waste and the associated revenue loss. Further, a solid integration with Pricer’s Instant Flash drastically reduces the time spent on date-checking.           
• Novisign – providing advanced digital signage and shelf edge display systems integrated with Pricer price and systems management and Pricer Plaza for advanced promotion and customer engagement.           
• Wasteless – an AI-driven dynamic pricing solution for fresh food that increases revenues and reduces waste using Pricer’s ESL.          
• QSC – providing integration with SAP business management systems within a retail environment, QSC brings expertise, insight and experience to retailers and will be demonstrating advanced shelf edge computing capabilities.

These leading innovators provide key examples of Pricer’s ability to integrate, implement, supply and support advanced, reliable, scalable and profitable systems to the world’s leading retailers. Read more about our partners: https://www.pricer.com/about/partners/

Enabling years of additional high value, low latency, real-time functionality at the shelf edge

With the heightened focus on enhanced store efficiency and advanced customer engagement use cases, Pricer is also announcing new shelf edge capabilities:

The highly successful SmartTag product range receives a major line extension with the introduction of the SmartTag Power and Power Plus families. These new products deliver:           

• performance enhancements such as sub-second response time for both display and flash         
• dramatically extended battery capacity giving useable power equivalent to 10 and 20 years*            
• enhanced sustainability with reduced energy utilization and recyclability         
• multicolor (7 colors) and multi-intensity (4 levels) flash           
• innovative new attachment system integrated into label

This capability dramatically increases the number of updates per day and flash usage that continues to limit traditional radio-based ESLs use of advanced capabilities for in-store process efficiency.

The new Pricer Shelf Vision system introduces a unique range of shelf based visual and other sensor technologies that leverages the Plaza platform, including patented methods, to capture shelf data that no other shelf vision solution can do. For high scalability the system is completely wireless and has the same attachment capabilities as the SmartTag labels allowing low cost deployments in key locations within the store. This product range enables advanced applications such as automated out-of-stock detection and management, realogram/planogram and merchandizing compliance as well as sophisticated shelf optimization.

And finally, Pricer is announcing a series of additional services to dramatically enhance the retail customer and partners experience. From Advanced APIs, seamless integration and advanced planning, installation, maintenance and support services, Pricer is providing a complete range of advanced services that reduce the complexity and dramatically increase the progress to achieving faster ROI and lower TCO of in-store deployment.

Pricer will be present in Hall 6 at booth 6A23 and other partner booths.

“EuroShop has always been key to our focus on serving both the European and global smart retail market,” says Helena Holmgren, CEO at Pricer. “We are looking forward to presenting our industry leading Pricer Plaza architecture and our vision for delivering foundational and advanced real-time capabilities for our customers.”

EuroShop 2020 is the largest retail technology trade shows in the world and is held in Dusseldorf, Germany on February 16-20, 2020. Pricer will be present at booth 6A23, hall 6.

*Actual lifetime calculations must be based on analysis of use case, length of deployment and environmental conditions.

Equifax Inc. (NYSE:  EFX) today announced at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) show in Las Vegas a new suite of digital retailing solutions that aim to remove frustrations often associated with today’s online car shopping where early-stage research and preferences rarely translate to showroom experience. Three new offerings: Digital ID, Digital Qualify, and Digital Accelerate are designed to help dealers, lenders and third-party service providers to identify, authenticate, qualify and customize the right deal for each online shopper. This suite complements a robust selection of Equifax Automotive offerings that help dealers to accelerate the financing process and get customers into a vehicle that meets their needs faster.

“Equifax Automotive continues to expand its solution set to meet the needs of automotive dealers, lenders, marketers and the third parties critical to the car sales process,” said Byron McDuffee, automotive general manager at Equifax. “Helping consumers to understand vehicle affordability at the start of their online research and to speed up the financing process from their digital shopping to the showroom is critical to the car shopping experience.”

A survey commissioned by Equifax found 74% of consumers wanting a more seamless experience that translates between online research and the showroom. Car shoppers are looking for a simple, personalized car buying experience where they can seamlessly move from online to the dealership at any point in the journey. Speed of identity verification and financing are critical to this experience.

The new Equifax Automotive suite is comprised of three offerings, which can be purchased separately or used together to create a powerful automotive digital retailing experience:

• Digital ID: Transform the digital shopping experience and accommodate the fast-paced, high-interaction expectations of today’s online consumers. Allow shoppers to easily authenticate their identity from the dealer site and capture their consent online.
• Digital Qualify: Accelerates the digital shopping process by qualifying the consumer with real-time pre-qualification information – helping dealers to make offers of credit to consumers at the point of digital interaction and personalize the consumer experience with that information. With Digital Qualify, consumers are able to receive qualified offers online.
• Digital Accelerate: Helps to provide the information required to confidently structure the deal to meet the consumer’s needs.

“Our new Equifax Automotive suite is designed to empower automotive professionals to identify and authenticate, capture consumer consent, and qualify the right shopper with the right vehicle. We are helping them to ultimately construct the right deal so that their customers get the journey they expect in today’s retail environment, whether the customer is online or in the showroom,” continued McDuffee.

Autosoft, provider of next-generation retail solutions for automotive dealers, has announced the release of its all-new cloud-based, all-in-one technology platform built for franchise automotive dealers.

Autosoft Go frees users from the disjointed systems and resulting processes traditional DMS solutions burden them with. By centralizing dealership data across departments and centralizing digital workflows, dealers can refocus their time and energy back on the car buyer.

“‘Business as usual’ doesn’t cut it anymore,” said Bryce Veon, president and CEO at Autosoft. “Autosoft Go finally brings dealerships up to speed with a modern digital workspace that empowers staff to collaborate, innovate, personalize their workflow, and provide the best experience possible to their car buyers.”

Autosoft Go harmonizes dealership operations with best-in-class features:

• One-time login. Access to all dealer data with just one login.
• Customer-centric apps. A full array of customer information in one window.
• Virtual assistant. Task automation that removes repetitive busy work.
• Search everywhere. All-inclusive intelligent search.
• All departments in one. Autosoft Go unifies every dealership department:
  • Inventory: Local market–based acquisition, pricing, and merchandising.
  • Marketing: Highly functional, compelling websites that convert online browsers into live buyers.
  • Sales: Streamlined desking and F&I that boosts follow-through and profit.
  • Operations: Full accounting and compliance.
  • Service: Online scheduling, optimized parts management, and digital service lane walkthroughs that drive repairs.

“Many so-called ‘next-generation’ technologies attempt to force awkwardly fitting pieces together that were accumulated through several acquisitions into a single platform,” Veon added. “We built Autosoft Go in its entirety from the ground-up to be a true next-gen system, not a simulation.”

From real-time local market data to consumer engagement across multiple communication channels, sales, and service tracking, Autosoft Go is built for franchise dealers seeking to align their operations into one technology workspace for maximum growth.

Autosoft Go includes:

• Data-driven inventory management
• Responsive search-engine optimized websites
• Intuitive lead routing and management
• Modern CRM functionality including integrated multichannel communications
• Built-in desking and profit-driving F&I menus
• Data hygiene and appending tools