In the evolving world of independent retail, business owners need to look to the future when devising a sustainable business plan. Their concept needs to not only hold value today, [...]
Few business sectors are changing as rapidly, or as profitably, as the cycling industry. “Wait, what? How have I not heard about this?” Good question. There hasn’t been this much [...]
Sipping on a beverage and taking advantage of free wifi is no longer reserved for coffee shops. Customers now expect wifi access to be provided when eating out, and quick [...]
Retail data is time consuming to pull and complex to analyze. You need time, resources and an overall understanding of every aspect of your business in order to really find [...]
Consumers spend an average of one hour and 56 minutes each day snapping, posting, liking, tweeting, and sharing information across social media apps. Facebook ranks as the most popular platform [...]
Technology has significantly shaken up the hospitality industry on more than one occasion over the past century. Way back in the 40s, we saw the apparition of the very first [...]
Everyone has a favorite restaurant. But with more than 624,000 restaurants in the U.S., there are plenty of opportunities for customers to stray. Maintaining consistent business from regular customers is [...]
Community. A key pillar of success for independent business. Whether offering a service, a product or an experience, independent businesses around the world thrive based on the role they play [...]
Restaurants of all sizes must continuously invent ways to stand out among the competition. And as if competitiveness is not enough to challenge restaurants, owners must also deal with rising [...]
With tech advancing at the speed of light and innovation replacing the tried and true, it’s incredible to consider the renaissance experienced by certain industries. Pens and stationery are one [...]
Meet Isabelle Racicot, media personality, primetime television and radio host, entrepreneur, and, on top of that, mother of two young boys; in other words, a modern superwoman. In 2015, Isabelle [...]
Lightspeed Retail has been featured in online publication FinancesOnline, winning their Experts’ Choice Award 2017 for the POS software category. FinancesOnline is a site offering reviews of software across different [...]
