Overview About Point of Sales

Pictorial Overview About Point of Sales

No More SOPA - Android Barcode Scanner

Students at the university of British Columbia founded a free android application that allows user to any product’s barcode and determine if it was made by a company that officially supports SOPA, or even a parent company or subsidiary of a SOPA supporter. This Barcode scanner application uses a public UPC database to find a product’s manufacturer, then queries a remote server to compare the manufacturer with a list of 800 firms with lobbying ties to the bill. Chris Thompson, one of the students who created No More SOPA, says he hopes the program could help solidify the widespread anger around SOPA, which aims to block access to foreign copyright-infringing websites, into well-defined boycotts of the companies who have pushed the bill, from Adidas to Xerox to Walmart to Dow Chemical. “These companies think they’ll make more money with SOPA than without it,” says 20-year old Thompson. “If they realize they’re costing themselves more consumers than they’ll gain, they’ll be less inclined to go forward with that support.”

Though No More SOPA is still being tweaked–Thompson admits it currently can’t give a definitive answer to whether about 40% of products have SOPA ties–it’s already been downloaded more than 2,000 times since it hit the Android market late last week, and Thompson says that rate is quickly accelerating. The next upgrade to the app, he says, will tell the user the exact relationship the product has to a SOPA supporting firm, and future versions will allow the user to check on a company’s stance on a wide range of issues, not just SOPA.

Point of Sales Need in Retail Business

Point of Sales equipment Lifts the Purchase at Year End

The build-up retail stores hit the record levels of purchase due to purchase via smart phones. The reason behind this lift is due to proper use of pos equipments at their point of sales. When asked one of the large retail store, they said” the use of point of sale supplies like barcode scanners and more enabled to quickly compare prices and enable to snap the best offer”. Price comparison via smart phone has been growing fast and as a result major retailers are offering barcode scanners as a part of mobile apps.

The largest retailer Amazon has gone one step forward and allowed their smart phone customers to photograph a barcode items and enabled them to check the price against the same item. This let to lot of improvement in the sales. This seems to be a great improvement and also it would be good news for those who have made their point of sales equipped with latest point of sale technologies.