Comet
Accurate labour scheduling to increase sales and reduce costs
Effective, timely and accurate scheduling of employees is essential to drive sales and maximise the return from one of your biggest costs – staff. A solution to labour scheduling is particularly important in an assisted sales environment e.g. High value fashion, mobile phone and electrical retailing. In these environments, matching staff availability to business needs [...]
Another year gone and another very successful User Forum for RMS
We successfully gathered some of our customers to update them with future projects and gain insight into how they are using our solutions. From this we received some very constructive feedback on how we can work harder to meet our customers’ needs. RMS User Forum 2011 Photos We have already created a group (RMS User [...]
RMS User Forum 2011 – Another fantastic event
Another fantastic RMS User Forum. With attendees from 23 different retailers, the event proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration and networking for our customers, prospects and business partners. Inspiring presentations from House of Fraser, The Entertainer, Comet, Arcadia and Denner proved how invaluable, innovative and inspiring our solutions can be to retail operation’s [...]
Shortlisted at the Retail Week Technology Awards 2011
Comet’s solution from RMS has been shortlisted for the Wincor Nixdorf Employee Communication or Training Solution of the year Award at this years BT Retail Week Technology Awards. The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony at London’s Hilton Hotel on 14th June, which always plays host to the biggest names in the industry. [...]
Comet Revamps Store Comms
In mid-2008 electrical retailer Comet went shopping for a solution to move all staff at its 300 locations – including home delivery, service, head office and contact centres – to the next level of communication effectiveness. Communications in Comet at that point used email and an intranet. The intranet site had grown beyond its capabilities.
Getting the message across with video
Summary: Many people don’t realise how easy it is for RMS’s solutions to deliver video with pinpoint accuracy right across their estate. This post shows how Comet take full advantage of this capability in Mystore, their RMS solution. In this article they tell us about their experiences, and you’ll see an example of the content [...]
Labour Scheduling gets integrated in Comet
Brian Townsend and and Steve Coxon from the Comet ops team were kind enough to share their thoughts on progress so far in this 2 minute video. Comet is a long time Operations Director user, and recently we’ve been working with Brian and his team to help them solve some of their labour scheduling challenges.


