Ihr Platz GmbH + Company KG is one of Germany's top three drugstore chain operators, with more than 830 stores throughout the country. Ihr Platz , which means "Your Place" in German, owns nearly 690 stores. The company's network also includes 145 franchised stores. Altogether, the Ihr Platz group's network includes a combined floor space of nearly 275,000 square meters, more than 8,000 employees, and sales of EUR 840 million (approximately US$1 billion) in 2004. The company claims an 8 percent share of the total German drugstore market.

Each store of the group is supplied with one or two units of the CASIO  DT-X10M30E   industrial handheld terminal with integrated Bluetooth® for wireless connection to the store own server.  Ihr Platz   uses the mobile devices for optimization of its information logistics in the internal process. All the devices have to communicate with two different types of electronic cash register which are installed in the stores. The CASIO handheld terminals integrate a CMOS imager for reading industrial 1-dimensional bar codes or 2-dimensional codes printed on each selling item and can be easily expanded with either RFID, WLAN, GPRS or UMTS module to be built in if necessary. This is extremely convenient for the use of the terminals beyond the usual local networks. Thanks to the modern handheld devices Ihr Platz has now a mobile way to immediately access to changes in stock data and therefore can meet out-of-stock situations very quickly for promptly filling out the empty stock items. Not only the supply situation has been improved substantially, but also the readability with the integrated CMOS imager on faded barcodes has no longer been a nuisance to the operator. No problem anymore.