COMMERCE, Calif. — Unified Grocers here has agreed to support and promote the NCR Advanced Checkout Solution point-of-sale software solution to its approximately 3,000 independently owned retail grocery customers in the western United States. ACS is designed to enhance customer service and help retailers improve labor productivity, retain profitable customers, and quickly adapt to changing business environments, said NCR, Dayton, Ohio. ACS can be customized for larger retailers or packaged for smaller retail formats, such as independent merchants. “This program enables our independent grocer customers to realize the same benefits from their NCR Advanced Checkout Solution POS deployment as large North American food chains,” said Mike Brown, general manager, retail technology, Unified Grocers, in a statement. “Also, through this relationship, Unified’s retail customers will be able to leverage NCR’s expertise and industry leadership in self-service technology, including the NCR FastLane self-checkout solution, to improve service levels and better manage operational costs.”

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