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.

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.

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.

30th March 2010; Nuneaton - The Heart of England Co-operative Society, an independent Society based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, has awarded VME retail the contract for the replacement of its ageing EPOS estate in it’s 33 Food Stores.

Following a detailed tender process, Heart of England decided to choose VME’s IntelliStore Solution which will provide them with a vastly improved range of reporting functions and a significantly enhanced stock control. Heart of England will be implementing IntelliStore Head Office, IntelliStore Back Office and Intellistore Point of Sale running on New IBM tills with the rollout to be commence late 2010 and be completed by early 2011.

2nd March 2010; Oxford - Nielsen is a global leader in providing consumer-focused marketing data to manufacturers of FMCG products.

Sales information is gathered at the point of sale and provides clients with essential facts on how their products are performing, market trends and sales results. It also provides critical information on distribution and the effectiveness of in-store promotions.

Whilst the majority of this data is collected ‘electronically’, there are a number of CTN stores that are currently audited manually. Nielsen realised that if an Epos system could be installed in these sites, the data could be provided electronically thus helping to increase the integrity of the data and supply it within stricter timescales.

The initial contract is to provide VME Retail’s IntelliStore Back Office and Point of Sale systems installed on new touchsceen tills to 35 shops with the possibility of more in the future. VME Retail will ‘poll’ the sales data from these shops and provide it to Nielsen on a weekly basis.

Installations will be taking place during quarters 3 and 4 2010, and quarter 1 2011.

12th February 2010; Draperstown – O’Kane’s pharmacy has selected the IntelliStore suite to implement into their chain of pharmacies in Draperstown, Northern Ireland.

Their manual systems were causing significant problems with stock control and availability so they realised that they needed to install a full epos system in their sites. A system was needed that could fulfil all their current and future requirements and also be easy to use, and after a comprehensive proposal from VME Retail, IntelliStore was chosen as it met all their criteria and offered significant additional benefits.

5th February 2010; Portglenone – McCann’s Filling Station has chosen IntelliStore to implement into their combined petrol station and supermarket in Portglenone Northern Ireland.

A member of the NISA group, they wanted an epos solution that would integrate to their petrol forecourt and provide full reporting functionality in their back office. The ability to manage stock, control prices, run promotions and link to NISA’s ordering system were influencing factors in their decision. However, joining a community of similar users thanks to VME Retail’s community forum was the deciding factor, so that no longer would they feel isolated as they did with their previous system.

22nd January 2010; Ashurstwood – Ashurstwood Village Stores has implemented IntelliStore Back Office and POS into their community store in the heart of Sussex.

They had been using a system that was installed several years ago and they needed to upgrade to a more functional and ‘feature-rich’ system, in particular a touch screen EPOS system to replace their ageing hardware.

VME Retail was selected primarily because of its enviable customer retention track record, and because VME Retail use state of the art technology in their solutions. IntelliStore’s ability to interface to the NISA ordering system was also a deciding factor.

7th November 2009; Maydown – Longs Supermarkets are very pleased to announce they have commited to the next generation version of VME Retail’s software suite, IntelliStore. Longs Supermarkets have been very happy customers using IntelliStore since 2003, and it was an easy choice to commit to the next generation version, IntelliStore v3, whilst upgrading their ageing estate of Fujitsu Tills.

IBM tills and new back office and head office hardware will be installed, utilising the existing IntelliStore v2. As part of the deal Longs Supermarkets will be one of the pilot customers for IntelliStore v3.

8th September 2009; Clydebank – Clydebank Co-operative Society have implemented IntelliStore into their Sylvannia Way department store. Having been impressed with IntelliStore’s features and functionality in their food stores, it was an easy choice to implement it when the decision was made to upgrade the manual systems they had been using.

Clydebank Co-op are looking forward to working together with VME over the next few years, upgrading and improving upon existing functionality to further address the requirements of their department store business.

14th November 2008; Peasmarsh – Jempsons of Peasmarsh have selected IntelliStore to replace manual tills in their coffee shop chain.

Already a very satisfied IntelliStore user, Jempsons decided to implement IntelliStore into their Coffee Shops due to the lack of control they had over the business, which was only getting worse as they opened more and more stores. Being an existing satisfied customer for over 10 years in the supermarkets chain business, Jempsons didn’t even need to look elsewhere at alternative systems.

The coffee shop chain was the first to implement IntelliStore in its “coffee shop” mode, which has been that successful that they are now implementing it into the small coffee shops within their supermarkets.

5th November 2008; Peasmarsh – Jempsons have implemented the IntelliStore epos solution into their popular fuel station within the grounds of their flagship supermarket in Peasmarsh.

By implementing IntelliStore POS with the Fuel module, they now have complete control over all pumps, combined with full stock control of both dry and wet stock.

24th October 2008; Edinburgh – VME Retail’s queue busting solution, part of the IntelliStore HHT optional module, has been rolled out to Semi-Chem branches.

This now enables Semi-Chem staff to scan goods in a basket with any of the VME Retail approved handheld devices (HHTs) which produces a barcoded ‘voucher’ receipt. When the customer reaches the epos till, the receipt is scanned and the transaction is processed without the goods having to be rescanned. Despite initial concerns to the contrary, this had proven to be a tremendous success, and has significantly improved the throughflow of customers during peak trading times.

25th June 2007; Peasmarsh – VME Retail has recently completed installation of 15 new v2 tills at Jempson’s award-winning store in Peasmarsh. The upgrade, from Fujitsu’s ISS300 POS, allows Jempsons to take advantage of the enhancements offered by IntelliStore v2 POS over their existing legacy system.

IntelliStore v2 Back Office, which already interfaced to ISS300, will remain.

27th February 2006; Galashiels – Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society (LBACS) has announced completion of a major roll out of 220 point of sale terminals at 48 stores throughout Scotland. For their new point of sale solution LBACS chose IntelliStore software from VME Retail, running at head-office, back-office and point of sale. LBACS has been a client of VME Retail’s for almost twenty years and looks forward to continued success using IntelliStore.

7 October 2005; Edinburgh – Scotmid Co-operative Society has announced completion of a major roll out of a 716 pin entry devices for Chip & Pin acceptance, at 266 stores throughout Scotland and Northern Ireland. The installation was performed by VME Retail in cooperation with Scotmid’s internal technical team. As part of the project VME Retail also implemented their IntelliStore touch screen epos software.

13th June 2005; Lichfield – Midlands Co-operative Society has recently commenced trials of IntelliStore from VME Retail, at eight of their Metro Stores in the Birmingham area. The Metro stores will use IntelliStore software to manage stock, control prices and run promotions. This trial complements the range of other products and services that VME Retail has provided to Midlands Co-op including support and maintenance of their epos systems.