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Groupon to Replace Nearly All of Its Merchants’ Cash Registers With iPads

1 pointsby robertwalsh0almost 11 years ago

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dragonwriteralmost 11 years ago
&gt; “Gnome will become a standard part of the experience of running a Groupon for both merchants and consumers, and we’ll handle any exceptions on a case-by-case basis, spokesman Nick Halliwell said in an email.<p>Do I understand this right? So, if you are running a Groupon, in addition to everything you would previously have had to do, Groupon is going to expect you to <i>also</i> replace your entire PoS infrastructure, or deal with a &quot;special case&quot;, less optimized workflow with Groupon?<p>I suppose if your PoS is literally <i>just</i> a cash register, that&#x27;s great, but if its integrated with how you do business in a deeper way, it seems unlikely that you&#x27;ll want to jump on this.