{"id":476,"date":"2017-10-26T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:40:21","slug":"legacy-pos-screwing-themselves-customers-dealers-over-a-20000-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/26\/legacy-pos-screwing-themselves-customers-dealers-over-a-20000-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy POS Screwing Themselves, Customers, &#038; Dealers over A $20,000 Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all familiar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/19\/it-took-30-years-to-go-from-cash-register-to-pos-going-to-cloud-pos-will-only-take-5\/\">tale of Blockbuster<\/a>. If not, here's a quick rundown.<\/p><p><em>Blockbuster ran a chain of very successful video rental stores in the 1990's. As the internet developed, people preferred to rent movies from the comfort of their homes instead of driving to a store. Netflix, the pioneer in in-home movie rentals, tried selling itself to Blockbuster, but Blockbuster thought itself invincible. The market predictably changed, Blockbuster declared bankruptcy, and Netflix flourished.<\/em><\/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>We are all familiar with the tale of Blockbuster. If not, here&#8217;s a quick rundown.Blockbuster ran a chain of very successful video rental stores in the 1990&#8217;s. As the internet developed, people preferred to rent movies from the comfort of their homes instead of driving to a store. Netflix, the pioneer in in-home movie rentals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2620,"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":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-pos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-7G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/a1-4.jpg?fit=400%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}