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Retail payments trends, digital impact and what’s ahead for merchants

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The changing customer and technology landscape is having a huge impact on retailers in-store and online. A recent Retail Wire presentation provided a look at the most recent ...
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Walmart and Waymo test driverless customer rides to stores

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Forget free shipping and other online shopping incentives. Walmart and Waymo are partnering to test free, driverless vehicle rides to take customers to Walmart stores to pick up ...
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Merchants lose $17 billion annually due to out of stock items

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Merchants are losing more than $17 billion in online sales every year due to out of stock products. At retail prices, that number is even larger at $22 ...
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Amazon Prime Day reviews are positively positive

Amazon Prime Day sales
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Well, another Amazon Prime Day and another $4 billion-plus in global revenue. That pretty much sums up the results and they must be doing the happy dance at ...
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Global retail benchmarks, BOPIS fraud grows, global payments news roundup

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We’ve got the latest global retail benchmarks research from Vend with valuable industry metrics. Buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) sales are up and we look at what to do about the ...
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Global payments news: Amazon financial & Prime Day, strip malls, Walmart-Target price wars, more…

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Here’s a roundup of the global payments news we’re reading this week. It includes a look at what Amazon is up to in the payments and financial services ...
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2018 Global Retail Research Benchmark Results Are In

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A new survey by point-of-sale expert Vend identifies key benchmarks and provides valuable business metrics for the retail industry. ...
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PaymentsNEXT: July 4 sales, Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kroger, Ashley Madison

Payments NEXT news roundup
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Our newsletter this week has a feature report on dating site Ashley Madison” unique gift card payments program designed to protect client anonymity. As well, we look at ...
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Payments news roundup: July 4 holiday sales, Walmart, Amazon, Target, more

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We’ve got the latest global payments news, trends and innovations for your weekend reading. Lots of news with Fourth of July consumer sales projections, retail technology, home deliveries, ...
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Target Restock takes home delivery to next level in response to Amazon

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Target just upped its home delivery game in response to Amazon and other competitors by trying to retain and earn new customers. Target Restock raises home delivery service ...
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