“The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.” – Dr. Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
This quote above is akin to the situation that many stores find themselves in right now; what will you do to find your new cheese?
The first step to finding your new cheese is to recognize that your old cheese doesn’t cut it anymore. Maybe it’s stuck in the back and refuses to move forward. Maybe it’s bound together with other old cheese that can’t be separated. Or maybe what you thought was new cheese was really just old cheese with a new wrapper. Regardless of your situation, what’s really needed is to take a step back, look around, assess the situation, and realize that what you’ve got is stinky old cheese – and not the good stuff.
Your old cheese isn’t going to be the same as everybody else’s, we all have our own cheese and our own way to address it, and the way we handle it makes all the difference.
Sometimes your old cheese is the technology you are using. Sometimes your old cheese is an onerous agreement that forces you into a rut. Sometimes your old cheese is something that is just still around because you’re afraid to throw it out. Regardless, old cheese is old cheese -- learn to recognize it.
Just as content delivery models are shifting away from traditional physical book purchases, your point of sale and inventory management system should change too, a traditional legacy provider may not be the best solution for your current position. When was the last time you really looked at your options? How old is your cheese?
“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of old cheese that was no longer there.” – Dr. Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
At resero Retail Technologies, we can help find your new cheese with affordable, cloud-based solutions to enhance your campus brand. With CampusCloud you can replace your out-of-date legacy system with a modern and comprehensive solution to operate all your locations on campus. Our SmartLockers are an intelligent parcel delivery and Buy Online/Pickup in Lockers solution that expands your store to a 24/7 operation and can cement your role on campus as a solutions provider for other departments. Contact us today at info@goresero.com or 833-326-0903 to find out more about how we can help you get more and pay less.
On a personal note, if you have never read Who Moved My Cheese? I highly suggest it; the book is a must-read for everybody in life from kids to seniors and has versions for every age group. The parable is one about change and how to anticipate, adapt, and learn to embrace it in the maze that is life.
