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Groupon to Replace Nearly All of Its Merchants’ Cash Registers With iPads

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > “Gnome will become a standard part of the experience of running a Groupon for both merchants and consumers, and we’ll handle any exceptions on a case-by-case basis, spokesman Nick Halliwell said in an email. Do I understand this right? So, if you are running a Groupon, in addition to everything you would previously have had to do, Groupon is going to expect you to also replace your entire PoS infrastructure, or deal with a "special case", less optimized workflow with Groupon? I suppose if your PoS is literally just a cash register, that's great, but if its integrated with how you do business in a deeper way, it seems unlikely that you'll want to jump on this.