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This trend is too fun not to share again and again! __ Tagging our next round of participants: Heather Colyer Steve Becker Martha Pratt Lindsay Clore Jackie O'Rourke Donald Colyer Kate Hensley Josh Kelly Karey Linkugel Chad Booth Carol Dykes Patrick Troutt Breanne Malott Duane Roebuck, MSOL Joshua Kaihlanen Greta Persinger #ThisIsWhoYoureAsking

It was a hot day in Phoenix, but even hotter?? Our recent #2UTour stop -- bringing tech, education, and networking to On Jackson and the court for a thrilling Suns game! Thanks to everone who ended their workday with us and our sponsors who make this happen across the country! -- Gold Sponsors: Elo Touch Solutions, Honeywell, Peerless-AV, Zebra Technologies Silver Sponsors: Custom America, HAT Design Works, LG Electronics, CyberPowerPC, Datalogic, MicroTouch, Samsung Electronics, SpacePole, Inc., Epson America Inc., Panasonic North America, Star Micronics ISV Sponsors: 42Gears, Esper, BrightSign LLC, Seagull

It's Reds Country in these parts... ⚾ Dean Reverman Kaitlin Akers

💲 💲 The point of purchase is prime real estate for retailers to advertise brands, promote loyalty programs, and capture consumer attention. Kevin Brown from PamiTV wants to do more in that area than rely on small payment-terminal screens and awkward associate upselling. Kevin joins the #BlueStarNationPodcast this week to explain the benefits of POP advertising, the hardware and software that enable it, the importance of tying marketing to payments, and how we can help retailers get a piece of the e-commerce pie. It's a recurring revenue opportunity that literally stares customers in the face! Watch the ep on YouTube or download it anywhere you get podcasts.

🎓 BlueStar Academy is enrolling for April courses NOW! First up --> Intro to Digital Signage on April 14-15. Attendees will learn about use cases, solution selling practices, content management, and more. 👉 Hands-on tech demos 👍 Warehouse tour 🤝 Meet BlueStar team members 🍻 Evening event Get your people to BlueStar HQ, we'll do the rest! Register now - limited spots remain! Learn more & sign up: https://lnkd.in/euqW2VaY

🔊 We’re pretty confident in that guesswork! What are you listening to today?

Retail executives are hyper-aware and concerned about shrink & loss prevention in their stores, so much so that they are getting personally involved in making purchasing decisions to mitigate the issue. That's just one piece of the insightful data we are exploring from a new #BlueStarNation survey of 100 retail execs, sponsored by Datalogic. How are operators tying loss to self-checkout? What are the perceptions of external vs. internal theft? How can you insert yourself in the conversation, and what solutions should be in your back pocket? We got it all on the latest episode!

And the Starry goes to... Have a laugh or two as we give out some (Blue)Starry awards to some of our colleagues around the office.

BlueStar Academy: a 1.5-day, in-person, topic-based training designed by BlueStar for the benefit of our customers and partners. Send us your rookies, and we'll help turn them into revenue generators faster. Our inaugural classes took place this week at our global headquarters in the Greater Cincinnati area—Hebron, Kentucky, to be exact. We went deep on Barcoding, RFID, POS & Payments. Students went hands-on with tech at our Solutions Demo Center and connected with Team BlueStar. An interactive tour of our robotics-enhanced warehouse facility, exploring custom configuration services—a long, educational day capped off with some fun and networking. Interested in sending your people to the next class?  Register now at https://lnkd.in/dNaQyS28

Retailers have made it easier than ever to return products purchased in-store, online, and even from other retailers! However, dealing with the influx of returned items to determine reallocation, resale, or recycling is creating costly logistical and labor headaches for the market. This week on the #BlueStarNationPodcast, IHL Group's Greg Buzek joins to explain the Returns Crisis and how we can help. What does the research show? What technology is turning the tide? How did we end up in this mess? Watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you get podcasts!