Industries
Grocery
The grocery industry uses 52ViKING for its reliability, stability and high-volume transactions because there's no time for downtime in high-traffic grocery environments. More than three million transactions seamlessly pass through 52ViKING POS software every day, and the bulk of them come from the grocery industry.
For more than 30 years, Fiftytwo has provided 52ViKING retail POS solutions for retail giant Salling Group’s Føtex, Bilka and Salling stores in Denmark and their Netto stores in Denmark, Germany and Poland. Danish retail enterprise Dagrofa also uses 52ViKING in more than 500 stores across its MENY, Spar, Min Købmand and Let-Køb chains. Recently, Norway’s largest discount variety retailer by sales, Europris, has also switched to 52ViKING.
The solution supports staffed lanes, self-checkout, fast lanes, mobile POS and Scan&Go in one platform. It ensures fast onboarding with intuitive, role-based interfaces and protects revenue with built-in fraud prevention and offline fallback when needed.
Convenience
Convenience retail moves fast. Stores are often located near transport hubs, petrol stations or busy residential areas, where customers are in and out within minutes. Many pay with contactless cards, mobile wallets or store apps. Checkout needs to work instantly, every time.
52ViKING supports traditional tills, mobile checkout, self-service, vending and unattended formats in one system. Prices and campaigns are managed centrally and applied in real time. The interface is simple to learn and fits stores with frequent staff changes or franchise setups.
OK Plus, the Danish mobility convenience chain, uses 52ViKING across a national network of high-traffic locations. More and more retailers in the sector are turning to the platform to support different formats, opening hours and staffing models.
DIY (Do It Yourself)
In the DIY industry, distances within stores are often significant. Some articles may be so bulky or heavy that customers must pick them up at specialized collection points. Also, articles may be customized in-store to suit individual customers’ needs before they’re checked out. For example, wood planks may be cut to measure, or paints may be tinted to exact customer specifications.
The diversity and size span of articles in the DIY industry, combined with a high number of sales to professionals, makes the DIY industry unique. So does the requirement for staff to be able to advise customers on their DIY projects as part of the sales process, as well as some articles in the DIY industry, which may be potentially dangerous or harmful.
Leading DIY chains in the Nordics, like Bauhaus and Jem & Fix, use 52ViKING integrated POS systems and scalable POS systems to efficiently manage their diverse inventory and customer transactions.
Beauty
In the beauty industry, sales are often based on dialogs with customers, which is natural because, in beauty stores, many sales begin at the shelves rather than at checkouts. Staff advice often plays a significant part when customers select articles.
That’s why the flexibility of using mobile POS solutions can be a great advantage in beauty stores. Not only do MPOSs provide the same feature set as stationary POS software for retail, but they can also include the same integrations with webshops, loyalty programs, etc., so staff can smoothly access customer profiles, endless aisles, etc., during any customer dialog.
Any type of POS software in the beauty industry must be able to calculate prices lightning fast because the industry is known for its often highly complex discount and campaign structures, which may also involve personalized loyalty-based offers. Staff must be able to scan articles in any order and instantly get their customers the best prices.
Leading Danish beauty industry player Matas is an excellent example of a beauty chain that successfully uses a 52ViKING POS software solution with MPOS to provide outstanding customer experiences and achieve impressive basket sizes.
Non-food
In the non-food industry, 52ViKING POS software solutions help a broad range of retail organizations handle thousands of complex transactions every day.
The great diversity of the non-food industry calls not only for ultra-fast retail transaction processing but also for a high degree of flexibility to suit non-food retailers’ individual needs for specialized departments requiring customized POS user interfaces, returns and exchange handling, gift card processing, article grouping for campaign and discount setup, and more.
Fiftytwo is known for its secure POS solutions and retail technology experts who ensure that retailers can maintain operational excellence and adapt to changing market demands. Our unified commerce and omnichannel retail technology integrates seamlessly with various sales channels, providing a consistent and efficient customer experience.
