Friday, April 2, 2010

Retail Automation Products

The automation of retail stores should consist of following products:

Barcode scanner: It is used as a handheld device for scanning or reading information. It works by placing a beam of light across the bar code and receives a reflection back. It can be:
  • CCD Barcode Scanner
  • Linear Image Barcode Scanner
Cash Drawer: Cash drawers are compartments which are present underneath a cash register from which the cash transactions takes place.

Customer side display: It is used to develop image and service with improved customer display.

Electronic cash registers: These are generally used for estimation and recording sales transactions which simplifies their work.

Keyboard: 111 keys programmable keyboard helps in performing tasks quickly and accurately.
Light material handling equipment: These consist of platform hand truck or other light material handling equipments.

Magnetic card reader: It is an electronic device used to read stored information from a magnetic card.

POS PC: It consists of PC based controller and client POS workstations. It can be of
  • Network POS
  • Standalone POS
Price labeler: It is used to label price related to any products

Printers: Barcode printers and thermal receipt printers are used to label the cartons before dispatching. Printers can be
  • Barcode printer
  • Dot matrix printer
  • Laser printer
  • Line matrix printer
  • Retail printer
  • Printer accessories
  • Thermal receipt printer
  • Product security systems
Security mirrors: It makes commercial safety much simpler.
  • Ceiling dome mirror
  • Half dome mirror
  • Quarter dome mirror
Time recorder series: It is used to track employees working time for payroll tasks. It can be
  • Computerized time recorder
  • Electronic time recorder
  • Fingerprint time and attendance system
Weighing scales: It is used to decrease manual tedious tasks. It can be:
  • label printing scale
  • Price computing scale
  • Programmable hanging scale

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