How Barcodes Can Improve Health Care Management

Barcodes have become an invincible portion of quality health care in the modern era. Till recently, patient’s treatment, medication procedures and other administrative activities have been taken care of by linear barcodes which are the simple single dimensional barcodes having rows of black and white lines. EAN barcodes, Code 128 as well as Datamatrix Code are some of the commonly used linear barcodes.

Linear barcodes are very useful not only for the medical industry, but also for several retail businesses which include grocery stores, electrical and electronic appliance shops, bakery stores and several such retail enterprises where barcode labels are affixed on the products to be scanned for billing, stock taking or logistics purposes.

Linear barcodes are easy to scan as the lines or stripes are vertical. Scanners can scan barcodes even if they are placed on curved surfaces such as drug bottles or test tubes. Linear barcodes are compatible with almost all types of scanners. However, there are several pitfalls which make linear barcodes unsuitable for medical industry.

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Innovative POS Technology Products to Regale Visitors at Foodpro 2017

Chennai, September 6, 2017:   Millennium India, the pioneer in Point of Sale (POS) technology in India, will be part of over 300 strong contingent of business verticals who will be showcasing their products, services and technology associated with food and beverage industry at the three-day Foodpro 2017 exhibition which will be held from September 7 at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai.

Millennium has been partnered with Allmark Solutions, a leading weighing scale and other store infrastructure products supplier, along with well-known POS brands POSIFLEX, HONEYWELL and GoDEX to showcase their technology prowess on Point of Sale and other supportive products to business visitors, vendors and prospective entrepreneurs at the event.

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Keep Your Money Safe In POS Cash Drawers!

Indian retailers are fast deserting the traditional and age-old habit of business transactions and are into modernizing their stores with latest technology to be at par with their neighbourhood supermarkets and hypermarkets which are posing serious threat to the small and medium retail businesses.

Check the checkouts!

First to see the sea change in the nearby kirana store or departmental stores is the customer-checkouts. Though retail shops are upgrading their business places with merchandises sitting comfortably on the neatly arranged racks, air-conditioning the entire store to provide maximum comforts to customers and enabling them to pick their own items instead of asking the store representatives to fetch the items for them, the most important thing which is getting the face-lift is the cash counters also known as POINT OF SALE (POS).

The traditional cash counters have given way to modern Point of Sale technology which has made retail transactions easy, convenient and fast much to the benefits of traders and enjoyment of customers who always long for the highest level of comfort while shopping. 

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How LoT Can Transform Your Retail Business

Internet of Things (IoT) has been creating a lot of hype among retail shoppers, and business houses are making concerted efforts to use this technology to bolster their business prospects.

IoT can revolutionize the way we shop and automate several services which in today’s life need human intervention.  For example, in future IoT can make our fridges order food, our electrical and electronic appliances schedule servicing and our cars can go to the filling station for refuelling themselves.

Apart from making our life simple and easy by doing a lot of mundane works, IoT technology will be a game changer for the future retail business environment.

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Why POS An Essential Part Of Retail Business

Though India is one among the fastest growing markets for retail businesses, still for many of us the terminology ‘POS’ remains an alien. So, what is POS?

POS represents Point Of Sale, the place where customers pay to shopkeepers for the goods they buy from them. Point of sale can also be termed as checkouts, cash counters, payment counters or billing desk, and so on, in many places.

But in modern terms, POS not only denotes the place where the actual sales happen, but also indicates the technology (both hardware and software) used in dealing with customers by way of billing, payment and other engagement activities.

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