{"id":1988,"date":"2018-06-07T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:28:09","slug":"if-you-own-a-pos-asset-this-must-be-your-api-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/07\/if-you-own-a-pos-asset-this-must-be-your-api-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Own A POS Asset This Must Be Your API Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we write this there are large companies shooting themselves in the foot with their POS strategies. Part of this can be blamed on their lack of software or data cultures, but most of it can be blamed on hubris. Remember, even IBM did a cultural 180 when the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Who-Says-Elephants-Cant-Dance\/dp\/0060523808\"> right leadership was brought in<\/a> to force the company to act rationally.<\/p><p>POS is going to \"cloud\" in the sense that data will be moved above store and accessible remotely. The POS will be connected to the Internet, for a lack of better explanation. And since consumers use the internet to interact with businesses (curate businesses by reviews and proximity, make reservations, order online, order delivery, etc.) being online is something every merchant should adopt with open arms.<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we write this there are large companies shooting themselves in the foot with their POS strategies. Part of this can be blamed on their lack of software or data cultures, but most of it can be blamed on hubris. Remember, even IBM did a cultural 180 when the right leadership was brought in to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants","category-pos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-w4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/a1.jpg?fit=787%2C509&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}