25th October 2011; Edinburgh - Scotmid are pleased to announce the successful implementation of the IntelliStore fuel solution into Scotmid's first petrol station.

As part of the acquisition of Botterills at the end of 2010, Scotmid inherited 2 petrol stations. With no prior experience of running forecourts, Scotmid turned to VME to install their fuel solution, an optional bolt on module to IntelliStore.

4th October 2011; Peasmarsh - Jempsons are pleased to announce that they have committed to rolling out IntelliStore into their Budgens stores.

These stores will be implemented in 2012, at the same time as each store is refitted. This implementation will give them complete control over their entire estate of NISA supermarkets, Budgens stores, coffee shops and petrol forecourts from their Head Office in Peasmarsh.

1st September 2011; Edinburgh – Razzo Coffee, a startup coffee shop chain with an impressive prime city centre location in the middle of St Andrews Square, Edinburgh, is pleased to announce they have signed a deal with VME Retail to implement IntelliStore into their coffee shops.

IntelliStore will be installed in all their locations, including their newest site in "the Centre" in Livingston. It will give them full control over their product file and allow them to implement the latest technologies, such as targeted promotions via their facebook page, and using IntelliStore's loyalty system for their regular customers - including bluetooth mobile phone adverts for passing customers, and the acceptance of QR codes.

A marketing dream is to get your message to your target audience at the lowest cost and highest return. Targeted mailing lists, or leaflet drops through the neighbourhood doors often are typically read by only 3% of those that receive them - and the conversion rate of those 3% into customers is even lower. A leaflet drop of 10,000 might be read by 300 potential customers, but a good return would be for 10% of those 300 to become customers - 30 people out of 10,000 - 0.003% return on investment.

Then you must look at the cost of producing the direct mail or leaflet drop, and compare against the profit you've made on the sale to those 30 people. Was it worth it? Would you have been more profitable had you not done anything?

That's why we believe customers receipts are a tremendous opportunity. You'll already know how many receipts you issue, but if you're going to print a message to encourage the customer to do something that will make you money, you need to get them to read it first. 3 lines of text in the same font as the till receipt is not going to be noticed by the customer, or it will be forgotten about quickly.

30th May 2011; Edinburgh - Semi-Chem have announced they are to install IntelliStore's branch charging and invoice matching modules, after the successful implementation by their parent company, Scotmid Co-op.

The implementation will greatly assist in reducing workload for the head office staff, who have been used to the automation provided by IntelliStore in the Scotmid side of the business.

22nd February 2011; Spalding - Red Lion quarter is an area in Spalding that had lay derelict for more than 10 years and was earmarked for regeneration by South Holland Council. As part of this project, a new food store was being installed and IntelliStore was chosen to run the business.

The system was managed and installed by VME partner Azurri, using Toshiba Tec tills as requested by the customer.

28th December 2010; Edinburgh - Scotmid have announced the acquisition of Botterills stores, giving them over 50 new stores, which takes Scotmid to over 330 stores running IntelliStore.

The implementation of IntelliStore will be carried out over the next 12 months, at the same time as the stores are rebranded to Scotmid.

6th September 2010; Edinburgh – VME Retail are proud to announce that we have achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status. Having been an Microsoft Certified Partner for many years, as VME expanded it seemed natural to progress to becoming a Gold Partner.

As Microsoft explains on their website, Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are their elite business partners. They have the knowledge, skills and commitment to help customers implement technology solutions that match their exact business needs.

19th May 2010; Penrith - Penrith Co-operative Society operates a Department Store and Supermarket from its Burrowgate Head Office with 9 food stores and 1 non food store located throughout Cumbria and The Weardale Valley.

After going through an intensive selection process, VME Retail were chosen to provide a complete refresh of Penrith Co-operative Society’s out-dated Epos systems. The decision to select VME Retail was heavily influenced by its record of successfully implementing IntelliStore in other independent Co-operative Society’s.

VME Retail will be providing Penrith Co-operative Society with it’s IntelliStore suite of systems which include Head Office, Back Office and Point of Sale. The Epos software will be installed on new IBM touchscreen tills and will be rolled out by the end of 2010.

28th April 2010; Seaton Deleval – Seaton Valley Co-operative society operates a food hall, non-food store, off-licence and pharmacy from its Seaton Deleval Headquarters near Whitley Bay, and 2 seperate pharmacies in the surrounding area.

VME Retail has been awarded the contract to replace the existing Head Office, Back Office and Point of Sale Software with its IntelliStore suite of software running on new IBM touchscreen tills.

Implementation is due to be completed by November 2010.