Tag: mobile payment
Mobile POS: The Brave New World of Retail
In the beginning, there was the cellular phone. Then arose a new kind of phone, from whence sprang generation upon furious generation of increasingly...
Amazon Continues to Reshape the Retail Industry
The idea of shopping online for groceries is not new. Retail technology companies have tried over and over to fix what people hate most...
Credit Card Fraud Goes Online for the Holiday Season
Final numbers aren’t in, but Black Friday 2016 appears to have exceeded predictions. And Cyber Monday is projected to be the biggest in history,...
Will the Retail Industry Become Cashless?
Statistics indicate that almost half of Americans walk around with less than $20 in their pocket. With so many ways to pay, including mobile...
NRF/Forrester Survey Says EMV Pushing Aside Other Payment Initiatives
Reducing credit card and debit card fraud by implementing EMV chip card acceptance has become retailers’ top payment issue in 2016, but retailers are...
Electronic Payment Steps In Where Cash is No Longer King
When Mark Twain said, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” he was not talking about cash, and he was certainly not living...
Mobile Payment Systems and Connected Consumers
Much has been written over the past several years about the new connected consumer. Pressure on retailers may never be greater to deliver on...
The Mobile Point of Sale Marches on in Retail
In 2013, nearly 66 percent of US smartphone owners used their devices to help them shop, and 80 percent of smartphone owners said they...
Electronic Payments Becoming the Norm in Sweden
If current trends are any indicator, Sweden may someday become the first entirely cash-free society. Although credit cards and mobile payment technologies are commonly...