House of Nutrition is a full-scale health supplement retailer owned and operated by Robert Cuzzo. Supplying the Yonkers, NY area with a comprehensive selection of health products, House of Nutrition takes its position in the supplement retail business very seriously. The store uses Catapult to manage between 8 and 10 thousand SKUs on a daily basis. ECRS caught up with Mr. Cuzzo recently to find out what he had to say about Catapult.

A Natural Progression : All Roads Lead to Catapult

When asked to reflect on the choices which led him to the Catapult solution, Mr. Cuzzo had this to say : "We started out by looking at MicroBiz, and eventually chose a Dunn & Dunn system because we thought its matrix table could handle our inventory and reporting needs. We quickly outgrew the Dunn & Dunn system and were fortunate enough to find Catapult. It's both easier to use and more powerful, letting me look at my sales by any profile I want, from department, to vendor, to brand name."

Quick, Helpful, & Friendly : ECRS Technical Support

Cuzzo had nothing but the highest praise for the ECRS Technical Support team. "Those guys in Support at ECRS are the best technical people I've ever dealt with. They have a quicker turnaround for responding to my phone calls than I imagined was possible, and they are courteous and professional beyond their calling. Any time I can't find a report or feature I'm looking for, I just call them up and they point me right to it."

Discount Control : Catapult Helps Create Value

Catapult's powerful Discount System allows House of Nutrition to build just about any conceivable discounting schema. The system is so flexible it can be programmed to automatically apply discounts based on the item and/or customer. The system easily handles such variables as Mix-and-Match, Unit Quantity, Price Levels, and Automatic Quantity discounts based on cyclic or non-cyclic intervals. Every discount is tracked down to the transaction level and discounted sales can be reported between any two dates. All of Catapult's discounting capability is available through its unique Price Change system, which allows House of Nutrition to turn automatic discounts on and off by item for specified sale periods. For example, a discount promotion can start Saturday evening and end Monday morning automatically without any user intervention.

"We constantly use Catapult's discounting and label printing features to put hundreds of items on sale all over our store each week. Without Catapult, our Bobby BOGO program (Buy One, Get One Free) would be a much more time consuming and painstaking process."

Spreading the Word

Catapult's power and flexibility have made such a positive impression on Cuzzo that he is recommending it to other businesses in his community. His confidence in Catapult's versatility and ease-of-use is so high that he even demonstrates the system for local store owners who are considering making Catapult their point-of-sale system.