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  <updated>2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
  <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
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    <title>The New Front Door Is Digital. Make Sure It&#x27;s Yours.</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/digital-front-door-own-it/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/digital-front-door-own-it/</id>
    <updated>2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>The industry&#x27;s own experts now say the shopping trip starts before the customer reaches your door. They&#x27;re right. The question they skip is the one that matters: do you own that digital front door, or are you renting it?</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="tobacco"/>
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    <category term="customers"/>
    <category term="loyalty"/>
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  <entry>
    <title>Your Inventory Is Tying Up Cash. Free It — and Carry What a Chain Can&#x27;t.</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/inventory-capital-trap/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/inventory-capital-trap/</id>
    <updated>2026-07-08T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Rising cost of goods has turned inventory into a capital trap — cash sitting on the shelf that can&#x27;t grow your store. The fix isn&#x27;t more shelf. It&#x27;s a leaner, more distinctive assortment, driven by what actually sells.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="inventory"/>
    <category term="back-office"/>
    <category term="liquor"/>
    <category term="tobacco"/>
    <category term="c-store"/>
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  <entry>
    <title>Happy 250 America! Here&#x27;s to record sales with your Insight POS!</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/happy-250-america-heres-to-record-sales-with-your-insight-pos/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/happy-250-america-heres-to-record-sales-with-your-insight-pos/</id>
    <updated>2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Dear Valued Customers, On this momentous occasion of America&#x27;s 250th birthday, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude to you. It is your loyalty and support that have allowed…</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
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  <entry>
    <title>Insight POS: Built for Tobacco, From One Company</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/insight-pos-built-for-tobacco/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/insight-pos-built-for-tobacco/</id>
    <updated>2024-03-01T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>What have we been doing for 34 years? Building a POS for stores exactly like yours. For a tobacco or c-store operator, Insight brings the hardware, payments, scan data, and back office under one roof — one company, one call.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="insight-pos"/>
    <category term="tobacco"/>
    <category term="scan-data"/>
    <category term="altria"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Don&#x27;t let crooks rob you of your data!</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/dont-let-crooks-rob-you-of-your-data/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/dont-let-crooks-rob-you-of-your-data/</id>
    <updated>2022-12-07T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Insight POS FULLY Protects your data. No worry about a computer crash..... we&#x27;ve got you!</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="c-store"/>
    <category term="petro"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Free is not Free! Protect your business. There is a high cost associated to FREE.</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/free-is-not-free-protect-your-business-there-is-a-high-cost-associated-to-free/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/free-is-not-free-protect-your-business-there-is-a-high-cost-associated-to-free/</id>
    <updated>2021-02-03T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Don&#x27;t fall for desperate companies offering free products. Free comes with a big price.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Track Your Best — and Worst — Sellers</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/track-your-best-and-worst-sellers/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/track-your-best-and-worst-sellers/</id>
    <updated>2018-05-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>It&#x27;s as important to know what is NOT selling as it is to know what is. Insight&#x27;s reporting tools show you both — so you stock what moves, clear what doesn&#x27;t, and stop tying up cash in dead shelf.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="back-office"/>
    <category term="reporting"/>
    <category term="inventory"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Work Smarter, Not Harder</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/work-smarter-not-harder/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/work-smarter-not-harder/</id>
    <updated>2017-07-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Don&#x27;t pay an employee to do a job the software can do in a fraction of the time. Here&#x27;s the everyday busywork Insight takes off your back — so your people work the floor, not the back office.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="back-office"/>
    <category term="efficiency"/>
    <category term="c-store"/>
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  <entry>
    <title>Altria &amp; RJ Reynolds Scan Data: Your Key to Higher Tobacco Profits</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/scan-data-services-your-key-to-higher-tobacco-profits/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/scan-data-services-your-key-to-higher-tobacco-profits/</id>
    <updated>2017-07-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Altria and RJ Reynolds pay rebates to retailers who submit transaction-level scan data from their POS every day — plus access to multi-pack discounts and loyalty funds. Insight collects and submits it for you, automatically.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="scan-data"/>
    <category term="tobacco"/>
    <category term="altria"/>
    <category term="rj-reynolds"/>
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  <entry>
    <title>7 Reasons Why Merchants Want to Change Their POS System</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/7-reasons-why-merchants-want-to-change-their-pos-system/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/7-reasons-why-merchants-want-to-change-their-pos-system/</id>
    <updated>2017-06-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Over the past few years, many merchants - regardless of what kind of businesses they operate or how big their companies are - have come to reconsider their previous ways of…</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>11 Strategies for Market-Basket Growth</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/11-strategies-for-market-basket-growth/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/11-strategies-for-market-basket-growth/</id>
    <updated>2016-03-02T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>[gallery ids=&#x27;89452,89451&#x27; type=&#x27;rectangular&#x27;] Opportunities abound in wine, chocolate and ... newspapers? Published in CSP Daily News By Jennifer Bulat, Group Director of…</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What is EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)? And how Insight puts it to work</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/what-is-edi-electronic-data-interchange/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/what-is-edi-electronic-data-interchange/</id>
    <updated>2016-01-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of business documents — like invoices and purchase orders — in a standard format, no paper and no re-keying. Here&#x27;s what it means for your store, and how Insight turns a vendor invoice into a done deal in one click.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="c-store"/>
    <category term="edi"/>
    <category term="back-office"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Rent That&#x27;s Actually Costing You</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/why-would-you-rent-back-office-software/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/why-would-you-rent-back-office-software/</id>
    <updated>2011-07-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>The expensive kind of &#x27;rent&#x27; in retail POS isn&#x27;t the software subscription — it&#x27;s renting your capabilities back one bolt-on app at a time on a cheap base register. Here&#x27;s the alternative: one platform where it&#x27;s already built in.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="back-office"/>
    <category term="disintermediation"/>
    <category term="payments"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What Are the Benefits of Barcode Scanning?</title>
    <link href="https://insightpos.io/blog/what-are-the-benefits-of-barcode-scanning/"/>
    <id>https://insightpos.io/blog/what-are-the-benefits-of-barcode-scanning/</id>
    <updated>2011-03-23T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <summary>Barcode scanning cuts checkout errors to almost nothing — but the bigger payoff is what every scan feeds your back office: accurate inventory, real movement data, and margin you can actually see.</summary>
    <author><name>Insight Retail Software</name></author>
    <category term="c-store"/>
    <category term="inventory"/>
    <category term="back-office"/>
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