Pos Market in Us

US POS market

US does not have domestic manufacture, most of POS are OEM, ODM in other country or import. There are three different customers use different ways to purchase POS for retailers, retailers or other stores.

First is to find the huge brand and use its solution like IBM, NCR and NEC…etc. These types of customer are usually large chain store like Wal-mart, Target, and McDonald’s…etc. they have use the same system for the all store in whole country. Therefore they are more willing to pay higher cost for huge POS Company’s service. But actually these huge chain stores usually not easy upgrade their system and they are more serious about the quality.

The second type of customers are the middle size chain store, they usually find the distributors to helping them set up the system. The third type is the local stores or restaurants, they only can find to the local dealers to helping set up the POS system, or they can also find the distributer ether.

Distributors and dealers usually are not manufactures; they purchase POS from the ferine company like from my company. Some bigger distributors handle many different kind of brand of POS. the dealers can purchase POS directly from manufacture’s branch office in the US or from distributors. Most of time, the dealers like looking for manufactures rather than distributors because the price.

POS market is different with PC and laptop. The users can not just go to the electronic store like Best Buy or Fry’s to find the POS, and they also are not able fine order POS online. The end user use has no ability to set whole system, and the huge POS companies also are not able to take care all of the local users. That is way POS market not become like PC or laptop market yet that just left only top 10 companies. But one day it is going to be like PC and laptop industry, just top 10 manufactures left, that is why a lot of POS manufactures want to find new application.

POS applications

Retail industry

The retailing industry is one of the predominant users of POS terminals. A Retail Point of Sales system typically includes a computer, monitor, cash drawer, receipt printer, customer display and a barcode scanner, and the majority of retail POS systems also include a debit/credit card reader. It can also include a weight scale, integrated credit card processing system, a signature capture device and a customer pin pad device. More and more POS monitors use touch-screen technology for ease of use and a computer is built in to the monitor chassis for what is referred to as an all-in-one unit. All-in-one POS units save valuable counter space for the retailer. The POS system software can typically handle a myriad of customer based functions such as sales, returns, exchanges, layaways, gift cards, gift registries, and customer loyalty programs, BOGO (buy one