PriceSmart is the first retailer in Latin America to adopt the ELERATM Commerce Platform from Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions as the international membership warehouse club looks to transform its front-end experience for its members. As a highly skilled and technically savvy retailer, ELERA's self-enablement feature was crucial in PriceSmart's decision to incorporate ELERA into its entire IT, retail enterprise. The feature allows them to react to rapid changes in business and technology while incorporating new functionality and offerings in a self-directed, agile manner.

Additionally, their broad base of operations in multiple countries creates unique opportunities for improved response times. The rollout will begin by replacing PriceSmart's current legacy POS system with ELERA. Supported by Toshiba's premier business partner Rhiscom, Toshiba will provide services and update the retailer's hardware and operating systems as part of a comprehensive end-to-end solutions refresh.

Industry leaders in system integration, Rhiscom developers will help ensure a seamless software implementation that will extend to consulting and maintenance services as the project progresses. The Toshiba TCx®Sky operating systemwill also be installed on the new hardware provided by Toshiba partner GBM.