{"id":3906,"date":"2019-03-14T06:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2019-03-14T06:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:29:19","slug":"build-vs-buy-itwercs-shows-value-of-partnership-option-to-pos-cos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/14\/build-vs-buy-itwercs-shows-value-of-partnership-option-to-pos-cos\/","title":{"rendered":"Build vs Buy? ITWERCS Shows Value of Partnership Option to POS Co&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technology is hard for non-technologists. POS is definitely not an exception. <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/04\/panera-blows-through-120mm-on-in-house-tech-blame-their-board\/\">It\u2019s why we often cry foul<\/a> (for shareholders) when non-technologists take a \u201cnot invented here\u201d mentality and try their hand at technology to arrive at klugey, overpriced solutions. And there are no worse technologists than brick and mortar merchants.<br><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to do technology right, you have to remove it from the hands of non-technologists. Such is the story of ITWERCS, a cloud POS incubated at a large restaurant chain only to be spun off for a shot at success.<br><\/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>Technology is hard for non-technologists. POS is definitely not an exception. It\u2019s why we often cry foul (for shareholders) when non-technologists take a \u201cnot invented here\u201d mentality and try their hand at technology to arrive at klugey, overpriced solutions. And there are no worse technologists than brick and mortar merchants. If you want to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","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":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-pos","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-110","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/a1-2.png?fit=367%2C137&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}