Over 30 years ago, Tony Pitale with the help of his wife Anne founded Innovative Computer Solutions (ICS) with the goal of building a better Point-of-Sale (POS) software solution for the wine and spirits retail industry. This venture has given our industry Vision POS, one of the most commonly installed POS systems throughout the United States used by small boutique shops and large multi-location business alike. The software has evolved over decades and constantly adapted as

Our review of NRF 2017 for the wine and spirits trade, including a list of our 5 favorite vendor interactions.

Payment processors, gateway providers, POS vendors, and retailers alike have scrambled since 2012, when the major U.S. credit card issuers announced their plans to implement EMV, a technical standard to transmit payment data through a computer chip (in lieu of the traditional magnetic strip). To incentivize businesses to make the change quickly, Visa, Mastercard, and other card issuers created a policy that after October 1st, 2015, in an instance of card-present fraud, which

In this industry that trades in controlled beverages there are inefficiencies built into our business by regulators trying to contain the social cost of our products. Some of these regulations are being challenged in the courts and state legislatures, leading to political and legal battles that cause divisions by pitting one tier of the industry again another. There is however another source of inefficiency that is far less controversial; that is the lack of clean product da