🤷 Are You Guessing on Tobacco Pricing? This Owner Stopped
Tobacco makes roughly one-third of inside sales in U.S. convenience stores, so small pricing or assortment mistakes can quickly impact your revenue. For one SuperSonic POS client, frequent price changes, tight margins, and unreliable reporting made it difficult to understand which tobacco products were actually driving performance.
Their previous provider lacked the reporting and support needed to act on tobacco data, leaving decisions based on guesswork rather than clear sales signals. Tobacco sales consistently underperformed as a result.
That changed after switching to SuperSonic POS and activating Tobacco Scan Data. With accurate, item-level visibility into tobacco sales, the owner optimized pricing and assortment and quickly improved performance. The gains extended beyond tobacco, and also lead to higher overall in-store sales, while the transition was handled smoothly with hands-on support from the SuperSonic POS team.
💬 Client Quote
Tobacco Scan Data has helped me increase my tobacco sales, and I have seen my in-store sales increase as well. It’s fantastic, and SuperSonic POS was amazing in getting us switched over from our last vendor who wasn’t giving us the service we needed. Great, super helpful team!
Reginald Rodriguez, Store Owner
🤔 If you’re guessing which tobacco products actually drive sales, you’re leaving money on the counter.
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The Fast Lane Highlights
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🛑 Amazon Go Shuts Down
Amazon is shutting down its Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh grocery brand after seeing it couldn’t make a profitable model for large-scale physical retail. While Just Walk Out technology proved transformative and lives on as a third-party solution, Amazon’s own stores struggled with costs, uneven execution, and repeated closures. [C-Store Dive]
💳 POS Investment Accelerates as Checkout Becomes Infrastructure
The global retail POS market is projected to reach $38.21B by 2033, driven by digital payments, omnichannel retail, and growing pressure on grocers to modernize operations. POS systems are no longer just transaction tools. They’re becoming the backbone for checkout speed, inventory visibility, and customer data, even as tariffs and hardware costs force more disciplined platform choices. [OpenPR]
📱 Smartphones Emerge as the New Checkout Layer
The global mPOS and SoftPOS market is expected to grow from $46.2B in 2026 to $128.1B by 2035 as merchants prioritize contactless payments, lower setup costs, and mobile flexibility. Software-led, tap-on-phone solutions now dominate adoption, signaling a long-term shift away from fixed terminals toward device-based payment infrastructure that scales with the business. [Market.us]
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