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This past June and July, the United States experienced days of record-breaking temperatures, and while Mother Nature turned up the heat, inner-city stores followed suit, enjoying a hot 10 percent sales increase compared to 2019. National Retail Solutions (NRS) operates one of the largest and fastest-growing point-of-sale networks for independent retailers and bodega owners nationwide. Since the beginning of COVID-19, NRS has been monitoring the sales growth through its network of over 8,500 inner-city bodegas and corner stores with the help of its point-of-sale (POS) terminal-based platform. While this system might strike the average shopper and store employee as a cash register with an advertisement-facing display, it goes above and beyond to provide a robust portfolio of tools to help these retailers compete more effectively in the marketplace. More importantly, NRS has the ability to gather sales data quickly and efficiently from each POS to assist both small business owners and the big name brands carried