POS receipts can be your brand ambassador

As per a recent estimate, more than 250 billion receipts are being printed every year at Point Of Sale (POS) counters across the world and most of them are used just to provide a proof of sale, product details, pricing and purchase date. Why not make these receipts 'brand ambassadors' of your business? With conventional mode of advertising becoming unaffordable to most of the small and medium enterprises, they look for a unique and cost-effective, which has great reach to propel their business growth.

Communicating with customers through receipts is better and easier way than other methods as you can amuse and engage them easily to stimulate more purchases. A retailer can design a receipt that not only has the address and name of the store along with purchase details but also can have the store logo to make the receipt more attractive and enhance brand value.

Agrees Bhaskar Venkatraman, CEO and Founder of JusTransact.com, which is India's first e-commerce market place exclusively for Point of Sale (POS) technology products and solutions for retail and non-retail industry.

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Owning a home in Chennai, a boon or bane?

This is not to dissuade anyone to buy a home in Chennai. But the fact is the fact! Chennai is among the top real estate destinations in India. The prices of properties, both within and outside the city, are steadily going up irrespective of the fact that some of the pin codes still to have basic facilities like black-top roads, transport facility, clean drinking water, clog-free drainage network and reliable power supply.

As an added bonus, people’s most cherished homes and swanky cars can go under water  during the monsoon season aided by depressions in Bay of Bengal. One can imagine the plights of the residents residing in city’s fringe areas, who had spent fortune to own a home there.

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Counterfeit and bogus items can take steam out of e-commerce sector

You have ordered a cosmetic item of a well-known brand through a popular e-commerce portal and you are happy to get it at a lowest price in the market. But beware! Before you beautify your eyes, cheeks or lips, check the products whether they are genuine or counterfeits.

The booming e-commerce sector has become an easily available platform to unload inferior and counterfeit items by some unscrupulous traders in the absence of strict regulations and quality control mechanism, feel experts. 

Counterfeit branded items are making the rounds in online market places with apparels, electronic goods, household items, consumer durables, consumables and cosmetic items becoming easy targets for such elements due to their overwhelming demand.

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No more printout hassles as e-receipts to rule retail sector

For retail transactions, printed receipts give purchasers a sense of “guarantee” and “genuineness” for the goods they buy. These receipts, printed mostly on thermal papers, provide details of the purchase date, name and number of goods, price details and grand total. 

Since the print impressions can sustain only for few days, customers find it difficult to document them for future use or when they return or replace them for any defects with the shopkeepers.

With booming smart phones and internet, technology allows businesses in retail and non-retail across the globe to send e-receipts directly to the clients’ mobiles. These receipts, unlike the printed counterparts, are long lasting and can be documented any time in case of future needs.

According to experts, the growth of the global thermal paper market will be largely effected by three factors in the coming decade – growing demand for e-receipts, increasing advertisements on thermal paper receipts, which is cost-effective and thin profit margin of thermal media rolls.

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When tarazus make way for modern POS!

The grocery retail sector has witnessed a complete makeover in India during the last decade with technology taking the lead in aiding its growth while providing customers a unique shopping experience which they never ever had for decades.

Lot of things have changed at Point of Sale, be it a typical Kirana stores or general departmental stores at street corners, the age-old tarazus which were eventually replaced by digital weighing machines a few years back are now completely outclassed by more sophisticated and advanced Point of Sale (POS) applications aided by barcode technology.

Retailers across India, including in tier II and III cities, are now shedding their not-for-us mind-set and are moving closer to automate their stores with the latest POS machines and technology which help them to customize their business operations, stay ahead in competition, reduce overheads and boost sales manifold.

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Abbey's Snow Monster - Girls Online Game

Cute Abbey wants to create her playful monster. Will you join Abbey to create a funny looking monster? You are given options to decide various shapes of legs. Use a shovel to put the snow in the silicon casting to create different body parts like torso, hands and head. Great work, girls! You have to select a pair of eyes for Abbey's icy monster and fix the matching horns too. Now you just have to dress up the icy creature to have fun with your friends.

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Baby Barbie Monster High Costumes

Baby Barbie wants to look funny for this Christmas. She loves all famous monster characters so she wants to dress up like one. She has her wardrobe full of monster costumes. As a friend, you should help Barbie to choose the right outfit from her closet and dress her up. It will be a challenge to find the hidden objects in her messy room. Some of them are toys and other fashion accessories. Dress up baby Barbie with Monster high costumes. After identifying each outfit, accessorize it with matching shoes, hairstyle and jewelleries.

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 Baby Shona Christmas Eve

 It was on the Christmas Eve and baby Shona wanted to spend time with her grandparents. Her mom asked her to write a letter to them. Next day while playing in the park she remembered to decorate the Christmas tree. Help Shona to decorate the Christmas tree. While playing with her mom, there was a knock on the door. It was Santa with a bag full of gifts. Santa gave a doll to Shona, but she asked for her grandparents. Surprising Shona, Santa removed his beard and it was her grandfather, while her grandmother came opening the door.

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Holiday Elf Dressup

The adorable Elf all set to go with Santa on Christmas Eve. But she needs to dress up nicely. Can you be her personal hairstylist and beautician? She has no time to make up herself as she has to go with Santa around the world. You have to choose suitable outfit for her and prepare her hair to look great. She should have a beautiful goggle, shoes and matching socks and Christmas cap. Enjoy dressing the Elf using Holiday Elf Dressup game. 

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A lesson or two from my Bangalore trip!

Bangalore aka Bengaluru may be a Garden City or India's Silicon Valley for many, but for us, the city has proved to be unlucky or I can say "jinxed" for more than one reason. I had been there for more than one occasion and each time proved to be arduous for us.

Few years ago, when we first packed our bags and left for Chennai Central to board a train to Bangalore, we missed the train in flicker, even though we left home well in advance. First, the auto in which we were travelling developed snag mid-way and then when we boarded another auto after a long search, an unusual traffic jam on PH Road delayed us or denied us to reach the station on time. By the time we reached the platform, we could only see the last bogie of the train leaving the platform. Alas!

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Esmeralda Today Dressup Game

Dress up game is the all time favourite for young girls. Esmeralda is a young beautiful girl, who wants to go for a Christmas party with her friends. She wants to look dazzling. She has a whole lot of dresses, matching jewellery and accessories to choose from. Will you help her to choose the right dress for the occasion and dress her up for the grand party? You just have to select the best one from different outfits available in her wardrobe. She wants to have a stunning hairstyle to surprise her friends.

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Kitten Maker

Do you want to give your kitten a new look? Kitten Maker game comes with a whole lot of options where you can virtually design your kitten by choosing its ears, cheeks, face, tail, colours, and of course, accessories to beautify it. You can show your artwork ability to design various body parts of the kitten and choose colours according to your interest. You can even change it as many number of times as you can till you get your satisfaction.

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Cooking Rainbow Cupcakes

It is time to bring some color to your New Year celebration. Children love cupcakes and Lisa is no exception to this. She wants to prepare Rainbow cupcakes and share it with her friends who are coming to her home. Will you help her to prepare the colourful dish? It’s just simple. Follow the instruction in each stage and the cupcakes of different colors will be ready in few minutes. You have all the ingredients available at her home along with mixer and a oven.

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Cooking Passion Christmas Party

Linda is planning to host a Christmas party for her classmates and friends. She wants to make the occasion special and unforgettable in her life. She is planning to prepare appetizers, cookies, chocolates and Apple Cranberry Pistachio Bread. She badly needs your assistance to prepare all these items before the party. Follow the instructions given and prepare these dishes to make Linda’s Christmas party a grand success.

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Merry Christmas Cake Making Game

Jolly wants to make a delicious Christmas cake. She has very less time left to prepare it. She needs your assistance to make a three-level cake quickly to surprise her friends. You have to help her to decorate the cake with lots of cream, cherries, dry fruits and other necessary items to make it look scrumptious and beautiful. Merry Christmas Cake making game is an interesting free-time game for young girls. 

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Christmas Angel Dressup

Do you want to make Christmas Angel happy and offer you attractive gifts? It is very simple. Dress her up with beautiful outfits with matching accessories. You can change her hairstyle, goggle, hair band, socks and wings of different colours and sizes. After finishing her makeup, the game allows you to increase and decrease the size of the Angel. So, what are you waiting for? Come and dress up the Angel and get your favourite Christmas gifts from her magic wand.

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Cherry Christmas Makeup Look

Linda wants to go for a quick facial and makeup for her Christmas bash with her friends. She is looking for a dependable beautician and hair dresser. Will you help her to look good for the occasion? First help this cute girl in cleaning her face with routine facial procedures. Apply various face masks and cosmetics on her face. Sharpen her eyebrows and remove black spots and acne. You should do her hair attractive and choose beautiful dress for her by following instructions to create a Cherry Christmas Make Up for Linda.

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Barbie Christmas Patchwork

Do you want to show your fashion designing skills? Girls, cute Barbie needs your help. She wants to look special for the Christmas party. Be her fashion designer and beautician to do her up for the special occasion. Fresh from Dollygals’ stubble, the dress up game is sure to enthrall you. You should dress up Barbie with a dazzling outfit and give her hair a stunning look. You can choose different shades of patchwork to design her dress. Select a suitable bow to her waist and add sparkling germs to decorate it

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