The infrastructure decisions that let a three-location retailer scale to forty without a re-platform.
The mistake most growing retailers make isn't picking the wrong POS system — it's picking infrastructure that only makes sense at their current size.
Multi-tenant from day one, even at three locations, is more work up front and dramatically less work at location forty.
Build for the size you'll be in two years, not the size you are today — but build multi-tenant, not multi-region, until you actually need the second one.