Macy’s announcement of a new, free, same-day delivery program for hundreds of thousands of products, creates a whole new US retail reality. As if retailers didn’t have enough ...
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Loyalty programs can generate substantial revenue when well-designed, created with substantial value and crafted to meet the needs of key customers. That old 80/20 marketing formula from your ...
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Apparently, cash is not on its deathbed after all. At least not yet at Amazon. Amazon is partnering with Western Union to expand its PayCode service so US ...
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We say hello to his week’s global payments news roundup and goodbye to the last weekend of the summer holidays. We start with $260 billion – that’s the ...
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Click and collect, also called buy online pickup in-store (BOPIS), is often touted as the next big thing in the last-mile delivery of online purchases to consumers. In ...
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The latest research from media analytics company Comscore shows mobile is making solid and sometimes surprising headway when it comes to the share of e-commerce spending conducted on ...
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Hard to believe I know but 25 years ago, on August 11, 1994, Visa processed the first-ever online payment. And what was that first purchase? Some claim the ...
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The US online grocery market has plenty of room to grow, but new research shows some interesting market dynamics. According to a research report from Second Measure, Walmart ...
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It’s sleek, undeniably cool-looking, and onscreen the new Square Terminal is faster, friendlier and aimed at breaking the chokehold held by traditional in-store and online payments providers who ...
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Walker Sands’ 2019 Future of Retail report suggests that all consumer purchase decisions boil down to two key factors: convenience and connection. When shopping, consumers are now conditioned ...
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