Some of our many School Store Success Stories 

Coming soon in 2003-2004, National DECA POS School Stories:

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio ......... Sauk Rapids, Minnesota...Carrollton, Texas ....Bellevue, Nebraska ...Hartford, Wi ,...Gainsville, Ga., St. Cloud, Mn.................  

Michigan - Southfield High School Store, "The Turning Point"

Teacher Contact: Ms. Sylvia Bailey, 248-746-7623 e-mail Could be one of the largest Student Stores around. Three POS stations and an Office Server sells everything from hot-pockets, candy, homemade cookies, to apparel! This store is tastefully decorated and professionally run. This student store is so busy that security is a main concern. Always there is a student at the door validating purchases by collecting receipts. Process similar to COSTCO and Shrinkage is way down!

• Michigan - Southfield Lathrup High School Store, "The Charger"
  Teacher Contact: Ms. Veda Cook, 248-746-7312 e-mail
  Would you believe front 3-POS Stations. 1-Station is both a Server and a Cash Register! Students can process sales using smart-keyboards and laser scanners. School supplies, Candy, Juices, Milk, Otis Cookies make up the brisk sales here. New Cappuccino Cafe is very popular!

Michigan - Clarkston Senior High Store, "The Jungle Bungalow"

Teacher Contact: Mr. Doug Slater, 248-623-4070 e-mail Has a great island theme with palm trees and everything! 2 POS Cash Stations with a Server located in the classroom. School just received new DELL computers. Students sell popcorn, candy, student supplies, and school apparel. Students print their custom apparel barcodes from a laser printer. All inventory is tracked using POS.

• Michigan - Sashabaw Middle School (Clarkston), "The Cougar Cave" 
  Teacher Contact: Mr. Jamie Rykse, 248-623-4200
  Our only Middle School Store carries school supplies, spirit novelties, and apparel. 1 POS Sales Station with Receipt Printer & Office Ink-Jet Printer. The converted Janitor's Closet has been transformed to a mercantile masterpiece by the Student Council.

• Michigan - Avondale High School Store, (Auburn Hills) "The Bee Hive"
  New Teacher Contact: Ms. Mary Ann Moriconi, 248-852-2850
  School store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, and gift items. 1 POS Sales Station & 1 Back Office Station. 

Note, Change of operation: Senior Marketing students help Mary Ann manage Special Ed. students

• Michigan - Grand Haven High School, "The Buc Stop"
  Teacher Contact: Chad Jettner, 616-850-6175 e-mail
  Store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, and apparel 1 POS Sales Station & 1 Back Office Station. There was no on-site training or installation here! Chad used all our training materials and relied on Phone Support and his School Technician.

• Michigan - 3 Rivers High School Store, (Three Rivers) "Wild Cat Variety Hut"
  Teacher Contact: Mr. Scott Muffley, 616-279-1120 e-mail
  A Single Station POS with Receipt Printer and Office Printer. Merchandise comprises of school supplies, apparel and spirit novelties! Scott learned the POSitive POS in 1 Day! Students have also taken quickly to our POS solution.

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Michigan - Davison High School Store, (Davison) "The Cardinal Shop"

Teacher Contact: Mr. Tom Benton, 810-591-3531 e-mail Very professional looking Student Store. The Cardinal Shop uses one front POS station and one back Office Server to track apparel, gifts, candy, and school spirit items. The students create professional looking Apparel Labels with thermal barcode printer.

Michigan - John Glenn (Westland) High School Store, "The Gantry"

Teacher Contact: Ms. Sherrita Law , 734-419-2300 e-mail You think you were in a shopping mall! Beautiful retail setting 3 black POS stations for candy, apparel, gifts, and school spirit items. What is real unique about the POS configuration here is the Candy Counter. We have set up 2 POS Stations with smart menu type keyboards. Each key represents a particular candy. Here the SKU input is just similar to McDonalds, by keyboard ... fast 'n easy! All the barcoded apparel is laser scanned at a 3rd POS Station. The Gantry uses no Office Server. One of the three Windows XP-Pro PC's has a dual role, that of a Server and a POS Cash Register. A network Laser Printer for Reports and Barcode Labels is connected to the Apparel Station.

Michigan - Wayne Memorial High School Store, "The Zebra Hut"

Teacher Contact: Ms. Cheryl Neal, 734-419-2222 e-mail Wonderful shopping mall environment with beautiful store fixtures! Here 2 black POS Stations with sleek DELL LCD flat monitors scan candy, apparel, gifts, and school spirit items. This store has its' own professional employee handbooks. One of the XP-Pro powered POS Stations has the roles of POS Server and Cash Register.

Michigan - Lincoln High School Store, (Warren) "Abe's Corner"

Teacher Contact: Mrs. Marge Levinson, 586-758-8306 e-mail 3 POS stations. Students sell candy, cookies, cold beverages, apparel, gifts, and school spirit items. Industrious students take the store to their customers at Lunch! POS creates a "pending sale" to track cart loads of goodies that are delivered and sold in the cafeteria. To reconcile what has not been sold and money collected the Order is edited and converted to a Invoice. Everything balances, Money and Inventory!

Michigan - Dearborn-Fordson High School Store, "The Tractor Stop Shop"

Teacher Contact: Mrs. Georgene Stergalas, 313-582-4310 e-mail Cool looking Student Store. 3 XP-Pro, POS stations for cookies, candy, cappuccino, subs, pizza, bagels, apparel, gifts, and school spirit items. Does a brisk business at Lunch. Many bright student managers here.

Michigan - Saline High School Store, "The TNT" (This 'n That)

Teacher Contact: Ms. Christy Synowiec, 734-429-8030 e-mail Highlights of this store includes candy, beverages, spirit novelties, apparel, and Otis S. Cookies 1 POS Sales Station with Receipt and Office Printers. Saline will soon expand to a POS-Network next year.

Michigan - T. Roosevelt High School, (Wyandotte) "The Trading Post"

Teacher Contact: Mrs. Luanne Clarke, 734-246-1000 e-mail A gigantic store with several beverage coolers, apparel, helium balloons, school supplies, candy, snacks, and even a Food Service Counter with Hot Nachos, Bagels, Otis Cookies, Popcorn, and Cappuccino. Yum! Would you believe that the Trading Post is open throughout the school day and does a brisk business every hour! 2 POS Stations and an Office Server. Very professionally run and could financially compete with any store on Main Street

• Michigan - Huron High School (New Boston), "The Trading Post"
  Teacher Contact: Mr. Bob Blosser, 734-782-1436
  New, Remodeled store location sells candy, beverages, hot coffee & cappuccino, apparel, and the very popular Slushies. 2 Cash Stations and 1 Laser Printer make up their dependable POS Network. Students are anxious to decorate and merchandise their new store. 

Michigan - Forest Hills North, (Grand Rapids) "The Dawg Pound"

Teacher Contact: Mr. Brian Johnson, 616-493-8600 e-mail Brand new store with beautiful fixtures and track lighting! Students and Teacher learned POSitive POS quickly (1-Day). 2 POS Stations and 1 Office Server. Inventory mix includes School Supplies, Candy, Bakery, and Slushes.

• Michigan - Forest Hills Central (Grand Rapids), "The Ranger Station"

Teacher Contact: Mr. Cal Anderson, 616-493-8700 e-mail
Brand new store with a stunning glass/laminate counter. Sells beverages, candy, snacks, apparel, and spirit items.

Michigan - Harrison High School (Farmington Hills), "The Hawks Nest"

• Michigan - Ludington High School Store (Ludington), "The Oriole Outback"
  Teacher Contact: Ms. Karen Opperman,  231-845-7303 e-mail
  New School store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, ice and apparel. Just getting started with 1 POS Sales Stations& 1 Back Office Station. Students are making barcode labels for Apparel items.

Michigan - Rochester Stoney Creek High School Store (Rochester), "The Cougar Den"  

Teacher Contact: Mr. Tom Mavis 248-726-5700  e-mail A wonderful, new school store with the perfect inventory mix of candy, beverages, spirit novelties, apparel. Very attractive lighting and store fixtures. A professional business with outstanding students taking care of most of the operations.  Students and Teacher, Tom Mavis rely on 2 POS Sales Stations & 1 Back Office Station to help control Inventory.

• Michigan - Cheboygan High School Store (Cheboygan), "The Tip of the Mitt"
  Teacher Contact: Mr. Brent Richard,  231-627-3331
  New School store carries candy, spirit novelties, ice cream, and apparel. Just getting started with 1 POS Sales Station. Newly remodeled student store.

• Ohio - Cuyahoga Falls High School Store (Near Akron), "The Tiger Den"
  Teacher Contact: Mr. Greg Perry,  330-926-3800 #2202 e-mail
  School store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, school supplies, and hand-made jewelry from their sister school in Russia. The Tiger Den processes many student customers quickly from their 2 black POS Stations with sleek, flat LCD Monitors. Teacher has engaged neighboring CISCO Networking class for IT Support. Store is currently selling Smart Gift Cards.

• Ohio - Cuyahoga Falls High Student Services Payment Desk (Near Akron), 
  Teacher Contact: Mr. Jeff Harrison,  330-926-3808 #2185

Student Services Dept. collects student fees for Books, Classes, and Learning Materials

School store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, and school supplies The Trojan Corner has 1 single POS Station and is effectively using Fast Keys and their Laser Scanner to ring up students. Helen also rewards her hard working student employees with store credit dollars. The Gift Certificate Manager in POS along with the Student's ID Card  helps control this process. Helen & Para-Pro, Kathy were trained on the telephone with three 1 hour sessions. All the hardware was shipped directly to the school and assembled by the School's Tech. A great team effort! The Trojan Corner is currently on a 12-Month Tech-Help plan directly supported by POSitive Software. 

• Minnesota - Sauk Rapids-Rice High School Store (Sauk Rapids), "The DECA Store"
  Teacher Contact: Mr. John Rasmussen, 320-253-4700 e-mail

New school store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, and school supplies The DECA Store has 1 single POS Station but it is leveraging a Network version of POSitive. Teacher can view School Store status from Classroom PC. Students can print reports from POS Station directly to his Classroom. John was tele-trained on the with two 1 hour sessions.  John's usage of our training CD also helped greatly. All the hardware was shipped directly to the school and assembled by the School's Tech. A great team effort! The DECA Store is currently on a 12-Month Tech-Help plan supported by POSitive Software. POSitive POS is running smooth and so are the lines at this busy store!

Michigan - Rochester Adams High School Store (Rochester), "The Amble Inn"

Teacher Contact: Ms. Kathleen Ford 248-726-5200 #6190 e-mail
School store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, apparel. Just getting started with 2 POS Sales Stations & 1 Back Office Station. Students are already Printing Barcode Labels for Apparel. The Smart Gift Cards were popular at Parent Open House.

Michigan - Livonia Stevenson High School Store (Livonia), "The Eye Opener"

Teacher Contact: Ms. Christi Antonelli 734-744-2660 #48121 e-mail
This large School store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, ice cream, and apparel. Just getting started with 2 POS Sales Stations & 1 Back Office Server Station. 

Michigan - Lapeer Education & Technical Center (Attica), "The Bodega"

Teacher Contacts: Ms. Carrie Turner & Sherry Davis 810-664-1124 e-mail
This is our 1st experience with a Vocational School. The teachers were very unhappy with their previous POS Software, so we migrated the Bodega to POSitive POS. We were able to re-use all their pre-existing POS Hardware and added POS Keyboards (with Hot Keys). This large school store carries candy, beverages, spirit novelties, and apparel. The Bodega has 2 POS Sales Stations & 1 Back Office Station in the classroom. The POS Software is located on the School's Server and all 3 PC's are networked to it. We normally do not recommend using the School Server, as the POS Server......but in this environment it has worked great! The Bodega is fortunate to be supported by several on-site IT people who are very professional. We only wish more schools had this luxury! 

Michigan - Martin Luther King High School (Detroit), "The DECA Store"

Teacher Contact: Mr. Jules Goldman 313-494-7361 e-mail
Amazing! Comes to mind, when you witness the large customer flow at Martin Luther King HS. The hungry students shop before and after school,  in between classes, and even during Lunch.  Students enjoy choosing from tasty candy, snacks, and gum merchandised in 30 feet of glass display cases. Also, available inside several Coolers are pop, juice, milk, water. An assortment of microwave able foods, salads, bagels, pretzels, cookies, and pies are very popular. MLK has 2 POS stations and relies on fast scanning and Keyboard hotkeys to keep their customer lines moving. The Teacher love the reports. The students enjoy operating the scanners! It's educational and fun for all.

Michigan - Redford High School (Detroit), "The Redford Marketplace"

Teacher Contact: Ms. Mae Talton, 313-531-0502 e-mail

The Redford Marketplace boasts a wonderful selection of School Apparel tastefully displayed. Students make and sell their own custom signs and greeting cards. Popular items are hot pockets and chips. A great selection of beverages are available too! the Marketplace is operated by 1 POS Station.