A POS System Tailored For Your Grocery Store

When choosing a grocery store POS system, look for features tailored to the fast-paced retail environment. Key functionalities include integrated weight scale support for selling items by weight using price-embedded barcodes, and EBT and dual pricing compliance to ensure your store can accept government benefits and apply cash vs. card pricing automatically. A strong POS system should also offer fast checkout, reliable barcode scanning, and an intuitive interface that’s easy for employees to use.

Beyond checkout, your POS should include robust inventory management with low stock alerts, product variations, and bundle tracking. Mobile inventory tools, multi-store syncing, and customer loyalty features can help streamline operations and support growth. Choosing a POS system with real-time cloud sync ensures all changes update instantly across devices, keeping your grocery store efficient, accurate, and ready to scale.

Yes, our grocery store POS system is fully EBT compatible, making it easy for you to accept SNAP/EBT payments seamlessly at checkout. It automatically identifies EBT-eligible items, calculates eligible totals, and splits the payment accordingly — ensuring compliance with government regulations. Our system also supports dual pricing, allowing you to show both cash and credit prices while remaining compliant with card network rules. Whether you're selling produce, meat, or packaged goods, our POS helps you stay efficient, accurate, and EBT-ready.

With a grocery POS system, managing inventory becomes faster, more accurate, and fully automated. You can easily add new products, assign SKUs or PLUs, track quantities in real time, and receive low-stock alerts before you run out. The system lets you organize items by department, vendor, or category, making it simple to monitor stock levels across thousands of SKUs.

Advanced grocery POS systems also support bundle tracking, multi-location inventory syncing, and mobile tools for scanning and adjusting inventory on the sales floor or during deliveries. With integrated purchase order generation and audit trails, you’ll have complete visibility and control over your store’s stock — helping reduce shrinkage, avoid overstocking, and ensure popular items are always available.

Yes, our POS system fully supports scale integration for grocery stores, making it easy to sell items by weight with speed and accuracy. It connects directly to NTEP-certified scales like CAS, allowing you to automatically capture the weight of produce, meat, and other bulk items at checkout.

You can also print price-embedded barcode labels from the scale, and the POS will instantly scan and decode them for seamless transactions. This eliminates manual entry, ensures pricing accuracy, and keeps your store compliant with industry regulations — all while speeding up the checkout process.

Yes, our POS system for grocery stores is built with multi-location syncing, allowing you to manage inventory, pricing, and employee data across all your stores in real time. Whether you have two locations or twenty, any changes made from your back office — like updating item prices, adding new products, or modifying employee access — are instantly synced to every POS terminal.

This cloud-based sync ensures consistency across your entire business, eliminates double data entry, and gives you full visibility into sales, stock levels, and performance at each location. It's the ideal solution for grocery chains looking to stay connected, efficient, and scalable.

While an internet connection is recommended for full functionality, our grocery POS system is designed to work both online and offline. When connected to the internet, your POS syncs in real time with the cloud — updating inventory, processing payments, and managing multi-location data instantly.

However, if your internet goes down, the system can continue to process sales, accept payments (including EBT and cash), and store transaction data locally. Once the connection is restored, all data is automatically synced to the cloud. This ensures your grocery store can keep running smoothly without interruptions, even during outages.

Switching from your old POS to our grocery POS system is a smooth, guided process designed to minimize downtime and frustration. Our team will help you migrate your product catalog, inventory, customer data, and store settings from your current system into Merge Stream POS. We’ll work with you to map item SKUs, categories, pricing, and tax settings accurately to ensure a seamless transition.

We also provide free installation and training, so your staff can get up to speed quickly. Whether you're moving from a legacy system or another cloud-based platform, we make the switch easy with personalized onboarding and live support every step of the way.

Yes, we offer free training with every grocery store POS system to ensure your team feels confident and ready from day one. Our training covers everything from basic sales and checkout to advanced features like inventory management, EBT processing, scale integration, and multi-store syncing.

Whether you’re a cashier, manager, or store owner, we provide hands-on guidance tailored to your store’s workflow. Training sessions can be done in person or remotely, and we also provide video tutorials and ongoing support so you’re never left on your own. Our goal is to help your business run smoother, faster, and more efficiently.

Yes, we provide free installation and setup with every Merge Stream POS system. Our team handles everything — from assembling and configuring the hardware to setting up your software with inventory, tax settings, employees, and payment methods. Whether you're a single-store operator or managing multiple locations, we ensure your system is fully operational and tailored to your specific needs.

We also include free training during setup, so your staff knows exactly how to use the system from day one. Our goal is to make your transition to Merge Stream POS as smooth and stress-free as possible — with no hidden fees or setup delays.

Yes, our supermarket point of sale system fully supports refunds and exchanges, making the return process quick, accurate, and hassle-free. You can easily scan a receipt barcode or search past transactions to identify the original sale, then select specific items to refund or exchange — even partial quantities.

The system automatically updates your inventory, tracks the refund method (cash, card, or store credit), and logs the return for reporting and accountability. Whether you're handling simple returns or complex exchanges, our POS ensures a smooth experience for both your staff and your customers.