USA POS Terminal Market – 2025
United States POS Terminal Market
The World’s Most Mature and Robust Retail Technology Landscape
The US retail industry is dynamic, with retailers needing to constantly adapt to evolving consumer demands, new competitive threats, sometimes-unreasonable legislation, and technological disruption. The integration of e-commerce with physical stores is another hallmark of leading US retailers. In doing so they offer a seamless, convenient, unified commerce shopping experience. This leads to the US being the most mature and robust retail market of all nations, and this is reflected in the POS terminal market.
Market Trends
- The retail industry is the US’s largest private sector employer with some 65 million employees.
- Technology ranges from nothing (a wallet or cash-box) to leading edge devices with extensive back-office, customer experience and supply chain capabilities. Large chains use a homogeneous POS suite to reduce initial capital outlay and ongoing maintenance costs.
- Retail sales grew 72% for the United States over the past decade, compared to 40% for the United Kingdom, 19% for France and 26% for Germany.
- OMS as a hub for POS has become the de facto standard among successful retailers. AI-enabled POS will have a significant impact upon the POS market for years to come.
- Online sales account for 15.6% of all retail trade (the UK’s figure is 30%, Germany is 27%, France is 14%).
Leading Retailers
Walmart (#1 Worldwide), Costco (#3), Home Depot (#5), Kroger (#6), Walgreen (#8), Target (#10), CVS (#11), Lowe’s (#12), Albertson’s (#18), Best Buy (#22).
Market Size & Growth Projections
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Key Vendors
IHL Studies for USA POS Terminal Market
2025 North America POS Terminal Market Study
- This study includes market sizing, POS shipments, POS installed base and trends for the US and Canada.
2024 North America POS / mPOS Software Market Share
Includes POS market share by software vendor by segment
2024 North America POS Terminal Hardware Market Share by Vendor
- Provides POS shipments and POS installed base by quarter for each retail segment for the North America region.
2025 North America Retail Stores/POS Sizing by Retail Chain Size
- Included in this study are Market Sizing by store locations and chain size for North America.