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Social distancing guidelines are helping to stop the spread of COVID-19. Yet they present a new challenge for retail stores – especially grocery stores hit hard by changes in demand and shopping habits. Click and collect solutions have been slowly growing in the retail industry and allow customers to order online and pickup their items curbside with no contact for safety.

Honeywell’s wide range of retail products includes mobile computers, barcode printers, scanners, and more can help your store continue to serve customers in these quickly changing times.

What is Click and Collect Shopping?

Grocery stores have been slowly transitioning to online shopping; according to Nielsen, 4% of grocery sales were online in 2019. But recent data has shown how much demand there is to order groceries online and pick them up.

Click and collect shopping uses an online portal where customers place their grocery orders and select a pickup time. Employees can then go pick the orders and pack them, and then load them into customer’s cars at the pickup location.

This shopping style is convenient for the customers who can order at their leisure and helps maintain social distancing by reducing crowds in stores.

What You Need for Click and Collect Shopping

Some grocery store chains have their own version of click and collect shopping, managed through the store directly. There are also third-party services that customers can use, which are also growing in popularity right now.

Honeywell’s wide range of retail solutions can help your store set up or expand a click and collect grocery shopping option.

Mobile handheld computers like the Honeywell CT40 Mobile Computer, with a built-in Mobility Edge platform, make it easy to pull up the order list and pick items. Built-in scanning technology helps the employee know they picked the right item and can feed back into your inventory reports.

Mobile printers like the Honeywell RP4e can create a printed ticket and receipt for your employees and the customers.

Other items you may want include headsets and mobile POS payment terminals.

Contact Barcodes, Inc. today to discuss your grocery business needs and how Barcodes, Inc. and Honeywell can help.

Efficiency and reliability of products are key in fast-moving hospitals. With everything you scan in a day – patient records, patient wristbands, equipment, medication, and more – you need a barcode scanner specifically designed for healthcare that can withstand a harsh hospital environment and work in every situation.

The Code CR1500 barcode scanner is specially designed for healthcare use, helping you quickly scan any barcode and move on with your patient care.

Why Hospitals Choose the Code CR1500

The Code CR1500 barcode scanner has several advantages for healthcare environments:

• PVC-free CodeShield plastic withstands harsh disinfectants to stop the spread of germs
• Seamless body design & IP54 rating seals out dust and moisture
• Dual-field optics easily reads barcodes on patient wristbands, specimen labels, blood bags, medications, equipment, and more
• Easily reads 1D & 2D barcodes
• Compact & lightweight design for easy use

Code Barcode Scanner Options

The CR1500 scanner comes in several models and with options including color (light or dark grey) and a stand. Shop the Code CR1500 healthcare scanner online, or contact your Barcodes, Inc. Account Manager to discuss your healthcare supply options.

Are large, unreliable retail receipt printers slowing down your checkout?

The Citizen CT-S751 receipt printer has a space-saving design and powerful thermal printing to get your lines moving and happy customers out the door.

Space-saving Design, Powerful Printing

In retail and hospitality, you never want the customer to wait – and with a maximum print speed of 350 mm per second to keep up with even the busiest shopping rush and long lines.

The CT-S751’s front load and exit for printed receipts and flat top allows it to fit into tight work spaces or under a counter top in smaller retail stores and front desks.

Citizen CT-S751 Printer Options

The Citizen CT-S751 receipt printer has several options so you can get the printer that’s right for your store’s needs:

• Black or white printer color
• USB interface with serial, Ethernet, Bluetooth, and Wifi options
• Full or partial guillotine cutter options

Watch the video to learn more about the CT-S751 printer:

Shop the Citizen CT-S751 printer, or contact your Barcodes, Inc. Account Manager to discuss all your retail and hospitality needs!

To stop the spread of COVID-19, businesses are moving to a remote work from home model. When that’s not possible and your employees need to be at work because you offer an essential critical service, you may be required to identify those employees as essential and authorized to work.

Why Choose an Essential Employee ID Card?

A letter identifying the employee as essential and allowed to work may meet the requirements, but a piece of paper is easy to lose, tear, or smudge with dirt or water. Durable PVC Essential Employee ID cards are made for daily use.

Essential employee ID badge backers (in vertical or horizontal) are easily paired with your existing employee ID – the larger sized badges hang below a standard CR80 size card so the bright red “ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEE” text is clearly visible. This is a good option for employees who already have an ID badge to display.

If you don’t already have an employee ID badge to pair the new card with, these vertical or horizontal Essential Employee cards have eye-catching red text naming the employee essential and necessary for work.

How to Customize Your Essential Employee ID Cards

After your order has been placed, a Customer Satisfaction rep will contact you to get your business information. Customizable text fields for these cards:

• Company Name
• Company Phone Number
• Company Address (Line 1 & 2)

New social distancing guidelines to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our communities are recommending people should stay at least six feet apart and avoid crowds. Easily communicate changes in your hours to reduce crowds and mark six-foot distances for payment lines with these new AirTrack Stop the Spread mats and signs.

New Stop the Spread Signage

Maintain order in your grocery or convenience store payment lines with new floor mats. These eye-catching signs are easier for customers to spot compared to tape marks on the floor and come in three styles:

• Red sign, 12” x 4”, with white “WAIT HERE” text (packs of 200, 500, 1000, or 2000)
• Black footprint sign, 12” x 18”, with yellow “STAND HERE” text (packs of 200, 500, 1000, or 2000)
• Blue circle sign, 12”, with yellow “PLEASE MAINTAIN 6 FEET OF SEPARATION” text (packs of 200, 500, 1000, or 2000)

New Stop the Spread Window Signs

In addition to standing six feet apart, many stores are changing their hours and creating new shopping hours for elderly customers. These new window signs help customers know the new policies:

• “OUR HOURS HAVE CHANGED” signs in with red text to draw attention to newly posted hours (packs of 200, 500, 1000, 2000)
• “NEW HOURS OF OPERATION” signs with hours for seniors & public (packs of 200, 500, 1000, 2000)

If you missed our webinar on April 9th discussing the MODEX 2020 tradeshow and how technology will transform warehousing, click on the webinar recording below.

Key takeaways include:

1.     Recap of highlights from MODEX 2020 tradeshow
2.     Learn how robotics are transforming the warehouse
3.     Explore the use of wearable display technology to improve operational efficiency

After watching the video, you can learn more about The Total Economic Impact of Locus Robotics: Cost Savings and Business Benefits (PDF).

This webinar was presented By:

Patrick Finn â€“ Vice President of Sales, Barcodes, Inc.

Jason Lum – Strategic Account Manager, Locus Robotics

Eric Hilton â€“ North America Portfolio Manager, Zebra Technologies

In case you missed our webinar on March 26th, click on the video below and learn how Smart Talk, Honeywell’s enterprise communications solution, can empower a collaborative workforce through unified communication to improve customer outcomes, improve performance, and increase profitability. 

Key Takeaways Include:

• The changing workforce is creating a demand for various ways to communicate and collaborate in addition to traditional voice calling
• Customer experience remains a key driver for businesses today and advanced communication and collaboration tools are a key enabler to achieve better customer experiences
• Achieve increased productivity while remaining secure through an enterprise solution that leverages existing infrastructure on any device, any OS, anywhere

If you have any questions about unified communications across advanced communication tools, please contact Raul Cepeda, VP of Product Management and Strategic Alliances, at [email protected] or (312) 765-6881.

April 9 at 11:00am (Central Time U.S. and Canada)

Join Barcodes, Locus Robotics, and Zebra Technologies as we recap the MODEX 2020 tradeshow held in Atlanta, GA last month. Hear commercial insights into what technologies and innovations were showcased at the show and learn the ways that robotics and wearable technologies drive productivity and ultimately change the way our warehouses operate.

 Key takeaways include:

1.     Recap of highlights from MODEX 2020 tradeshow
2.     Learn how robotics are transforming the warehouse
3.     Explore the use of wearable display technology to improve operational efficiency

Presented By:

Patrick Finn – Vice President of Sales, Barcodes, Inc.

Jason Lum – Strategic Account Manager, Locus Robotics

Eric Hilton – North America Portfolio Manager, Zebra Technologies

By registering, you submit your information to Barcodes, who will use it to communicate with you regarding this event and other services.

If you need a flexible and powerful mobile computer, consider the Zebra MC9300 mobile computer. Zebra MC9300 handheld mobile computers are known for their durable design and enterprise features, and the MC9300 is designed for use in every warehouse environment from cold food processing to retail and manufacturing.

Key MC9300 Improvements

The newest Zebra mobile computer features these key improvements over past options:

• Up to 8 times the RAM & 16 times the Flash memory for superior performance
• Nearly twice the battery life of the MC9200
• Rugged design options to work in environments from the freezer to flammable gases
• New Mobility DNA to easily identify and replace aging batteries
• Larger 4.3” WVGA color display screen

Other Zebra MC9300 handheld mobile computer features include:

• Quickly & easily reads 1D & 2D barcodes
• Optional long-range scanner (SE4850) reads barcodes up to 70 feet away
• Touchscreen (with a stylus) and keypad input for flexibility
• Vibrate feedback mode for loud environments when you can’t hear the beep
• Integrated support for Terminal Emulation (TE) apps right out of the box
• Optional 13 MP color rear-facing camera for photos & videos to document proof of condition, compliance, and more
• NFC to quickly & easily connect to your scanner, printer, headset, and more

Shop all the Zebra MC9300 handheld mobile computer options, or contact Barcodes, Inc. today to more information.

To Our Barcodes, Inc. Customers and Communities:

Multiple state governments have enacted ‘stay at home’ orders to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This means all residents are mandated to ‘remain at home’ and only essential businesses may remain open to provide critical services. Under these orders, residents of the states must remain in their homes except as needed to maintain continuity of operations in 16 specific critical infrastructure sectors. Two of those critical infrastructure sectors, as defined by the Department of Homeland Security, are the information technology and transportation & logistics sectors.

Barcodes, Inc. plays a vital role in the information technology and logistics sectors and in serving the supply chain in this unprecedented time of need. Therefore, our warehouses and support centers across the country will remain open and operational and our field services technicians will remain available to continue to serve our customers in fulfilling the critical technology needs of the nation’s federal, state and local governments, healthcare facilities, and education, industrial and financial services sectors.

We currently have large stocks of finished goods are closely coordinating with our suppliers and logistics partners to ensure prompt service. This will enable us to continue to serve our valued customers as we all work together to support the supply chain and critical industries in the U.S. and Canada.

We continue to implement strict precautionary measures in all our logistics and integration centers, in accordance with government and public health requirements, to reduce risk for colleagues who are performing their duties.

If you have questions, please contact your Barcodes, Inc. sales representative or contact Barcodes, Inc. at 1-800-351-9962.

We value your business and will continue to do everything we can to provide the best possible service to all our customers during these exceptionally challenging times.

Best Regards,
Daniel Nettesheim
President & CEO