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With Aptos ONE, fashion retailer Glik's is benefiting from more unified customer experiences across channels, POS mobility, and simplified, centralized store operations management. In this video, listen as Jeff and Jeremy Glik discuss the key factors that shaped their decision to adopt Aptos ONE.

The pandemic accelerated digital adoption. But rather than killing physical retail, it recalibrated it. Shoppers returned to stores with sharper expectations shaped by frictionless digital experiences.

Today's shoppers arrive in-store more informed than ever — and their expectations have never been higher. This practical checklist helps retail technology, store operations and marketing leaders assess whether their current POS solution is truly fit for purpose in today's unified commerce environment. Evaluate your POS across 14 critical capability areas, from associate experience and omnichannel support to cloud architecture, security and global readiness.

When you spend enough time in marketing, you develop a certain relationship with the content you help create. You've seen the drafts. You've shaped the messaging. You know the data behind every claim before anyone else does. By the time an event keynote happens, you've usually lived through it three (or ten) times already.

Look at any mature retailer's technology stack and you'll find the same story. A POS that talks to an OMS through a point-to-point integration built five years ago. An OMS that pushes orders to WMS via a bespoke flat-file drop. A tax engine wired in differently for stores than it is for eCommerce. A loyalty platform integrated through a webhook that nobody fully owns. A shipping carrier adapter that was a "temporary" fix in 2021. Every one of these connections was reasonable in isolation.

Leading lifestyle retailer to deploy mobile-first point of sale solution across 500-plus stores and at large-scale pop-up events ALPHARETTA, Ga. — May 6, 2026 — Aptos, a leader in unified commerce solutions, announced today that Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. will deploy the Aptos ONE point of sale platform across its 500-plus U.S. locations.

It’s probably too early – okay, definitely too early – to draw any definitive conclusions, but if the conversations we had in the exhibit hall at the just-concluded Retail Technology Show (RTS) in London are any indication, we may in fact be seeing a shift in the conversations about AI. Let’s look at why I think this may be the case.

Editor’s Note: This post summarizes “The Power of Personalization at POS,” an eBook recently published by Aptos. To learn more about how shopper decision fatigue threatens your results — and how personalization can help — view our eBook here. Walk into most retail stores and you’ll be greeted by an impressive display of choices — rows upon rows of products in every conceivable style and color and at every price point.

Iconic island lifestyle brand Tommy Bahama is deploying Aptos ONE POS across more than 160 stores to power its next-gen retail experience. In this video, Tommy Bahama’s Keith Weiss discusses the decision to adopt Aptos ONE and the expected benefits – including increased mobility for store associates.

Aptos at RTS 2026 Power the Modern Store at the Retail Technology Show We're putting the spotlight on what matters most at this year’s RTS: our customers. Drop into the Aptos Retail Café to see how retail leaders are transforming their stores, empowering their associates and exceeding customer expectations by leveraging the power of Aptos solutions. Experience the future of retail, brought to life by those who are shaping it today.