Faster, easier and more cost-effective ticketing
The Midcounties Co-operative: A Case Study
"The introduction of the net tickIT system throughout our whole store network has been warmly welcomed by every store team. We are hugely impressed by the simplicity of in store execution as well as the professionalism of the IT project team. Retailers always demand better, faster, easier and more cost-effective in store solutions we can confirm this delivers exactly to expectation!"
Chief Operating Officer, Trading
The Midcounties Co-operative
The Midcounties Co-operative has an enviable and growing reputation for their deployment of technology in the Retail environment for the benefit of both customers and store colleagues alike. Pierhouse is delighted to partner with The Midcounties Co-operative in their latest development the introduction of our store based POS printing solution net tickIT. The Midcounties Co-operative is the second largest independent co-operative in the UK with a turnover of £712 million covering Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire and the West Midlands.
The co-op has over 7,000 colleagues spread across around 450 sites working in seven different trading areas. These businesses are: Food Stores, Travel, Pharmacy, Funeralcare, Childcare, Post Office, News Express and Domains
There are over 200 retail stores, most of which are community focused, located in villages and areas in towns often ignored by other Retailers. The Co-operative is committed to providing a local service. Every three weeks or so, a national set of products is identified and every Co-operative store commits to promoting these lines. The buying arm of the movement is called the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG) and they release the product details to each Co-operative Society for the management of each promotion. Many Co-operatives have chosen to develop and produce their own point of sale materials to advertise these promotional lines. The Midcounties Co-operative investigated various production methods on the market and concluded that they gain the greatest benefit from the purchase of the net tickIT for in store POS colour printing.
The net tickIT web application, database, templates and graphic storage requires a server running Windows SQL Server and IIS. By using the in store browser, print construction is completed by the browser print function allowing the network to only carry data and one occurrence of graphic elements. This minimises traffic and reduces any overhead for sustained on line store requirements.
