Consumers want to be able to use their smartphones to scan or look products up and make payments — even when they are shopping at their neighborhood markets. Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solutions have emerged to help them do just that, enabling convenient and frictionless experiences at small to medium-size...
Girl Scouts mobilize nationwide from January to March each year, setting up pop-up booths outside of grocery stores and subway stations to sell cookies and raise funds for their troops. The cookies are popular enough to even inspire Thin Mint-flavored coffees from major brands like Dunkin’ – but sales often...
The use of contactless payments is heating up worldwide, and retailers are looking to their mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) providers to help them prepare. Meeting this need can be tricky (for one, contactless-enabled mPOS terminals must meet certain requirements to gain EMVCo 3.0 certification), but solution...
Restaurants have traditionally served in-house patrons only, and full tables used to mean wait times for those looking for meals. Next came the invention of takeout, then phone-in and online ordering — all of which required restaurants to adjust their focus to offer top-quality services...
To foster lucrative impulse buys, encouraging in-store shopping is key — and for Reebok, mobile point of sale (mPOS) cracks the code. Its quick, skip-the-line-and-checkout-from-anywhere experience increases profitability, says Paul Froio, Reebok’s VP of U.S. retail. In this month’s mPOS Tracker, Froio explains how mPOS...
Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) adoption is becoming increasingly high on retailers’ to-do lists. A full 45 percent of retailers listed it as a priority this year, according to a recent survey, and more restaurants are aiming to get in on the action as they work to...
Supermarkets around the world may seem to have locked-in consumer bases — groceries are a necessity, after all — but the reality is far more complicated. Coping with slim operating margins and spoilable inventory that must move quickly are just some of the challenges grocers...
Against rising competition from eTailers, grocery chains from Kroger to Walmart are deploying new checkout solutions to keep up and stay competitive. February’s mPOS Tracker focuses on how mPOS delivers convenience to in-store shoppers, while helping supermarkets process more transactions. Plus, for this month’s feature...
Customers expect unified retail experiences as they shop between in-store and online. Retailers and supermarkets are listening, and extending mobile channels into their brick-and-mortar locations, enabling customers to skip the line with mobile scan-and-pay or by equipping employees with handheld point-of-sale (POS) devices to allow...
