
From: Dan Nesmith, President
Paladin Data Corporation
BEND, Oregon, 14 November 2006
Open Letter To: All Ace Hardware Store Owners.
Paladin Data Corporation appreciates the enthusiasm voiced for our new Paladin POS for windows system. The trust and confidence bestowed our company by you, the independent hardware store owner, is genuinely important to us and we pledge to continue the legendary support and simple solutions that have been our hallmark for over 25 years.
Paladin POS for windows delivers to you, information – ideas – relationships – and associations that have never been available with other POS systems. The real strength of this new information system isn’t just the display of pertinent information. The fact that you don’t have to ask for the information is what gives the Paladin solution so much power. Imagine the positive effect on your business because your decisions will be based on better information.
We have a long and fruitful history with Ace Hardware and the independent store owners that form the Ace Hardware coop. Our first electronic data transmission system was established with Ace Hardware in 1983. To this date, Paladin Data Corporation has designed, developed and supported software to maintain electronic data exchange with Ace Hardware to exceed their published data standards. Every public Ace Hardware communication program known to Paladin Data Corporation has been produced and is available for use in the stores. We continue to push this realm even further and hope one day soon that we may be allowed to provide a sponsored customer reward program to the stores.
A business quote generally credited to Bill Gates follows a question regarding how Microsoft will handle the projected explosive growth (obviously from a few years ago). The answer was that Microsoft had hired the very best talent for every discipline in its business model. Paladin Data Corp has always succeeded by staffing every position with very talented individuals equipped with the best technology to assure a small, nimble and profitable company. These continued practices along with a solid – well funded business plan will allow Paladin Data Corp to grow past our current size and capacity to meet the demands of a significantly larger market.
A message shared with us today from a posting by Ray Griffith, president and CEO of Ace Hardware clearly and generously states “As always, our retailers can pick any system they choose.” The challenge facing every store owner today is that in exercising this right to choose the best featured, supported and priced system for their stores may place some Corporate sponsored programs and privileges off limits. This is a situation that can be cleaned up. Talk to everyone about Paladin’s new technology and your interest in pursuing it. An official endorsement from Ace Hardware isn’t required to prove the Paladin Data Corporation concept, simply cause your coop to allow access to the ‘private’ published data standards already in use and the free market will prove the worth and measure of the Paladin concept.
Today, as for the last 25 years, Paladin Data Corporation is genuinely interested in and committed to the success of your store. If you succeed, then we succeed. Please contact us and allow us the opportunity to share our passion.
Respectfully submitted,
Dan Nesmith, President
Paladin Data Corp
contact@paladinpos.com |