Weekly commentary from Liam McMahon, a systems architect and full-stack developer in Belfast, Northern Ireland — on shop and retail technology, online ordering, databases and cloud.
In-store inflation has stepped back up and hardware is getting dearer at the same time. Most of the pain for small retailers is not the headline number, it is how badly their systems handle a price change.
Read the post →Oxfam's retail director says shop-floor expertise is what powers its ecommerce, rental and livestream selling. From a systems point of view she is right, and most retail software gets this backwards.
Read the post →Every shop owner I speak to in Northern Ireland has been quoted a monthly figure for online ordering. Almost nobody has been shown the second and third numbers underneath it.
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