What does the future of retail look like — for convenience stores and gasoline retail? Last month, MPD CEO Karen Webster spoke one-on-one with Aurus CEO Rahul Mutha on the “tripod” situation that retailers face – the challenges around EMV, data security breaches and customers’...
It started with the Rite Aide and then spread to CVS, now, according to NYT reporting the battle for the merchants between Apple and MCX is heating up as more major retailers are finding that though they might be interested in taking mobile payments, they...
Taco Bell and Outback Steakhouse are shifting their businesses to deal with the new smartphone reality. Taco Bell on Tuesday (Oct. 28), for example, rolled out its version of the mobile app to allow customers to order ahead and place a food order for pickup....
Adobe has upgraded its shopping cart abandonment package to deliver realtime data and the ability to immediately reach out to that shopper. The earlier version had a 24-hour lag, according to a story in VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Throughout the 2014 baseball season, MasterCard has been surprising fans with Priceless Surprises. After Apple Pay's recent launch, MasterCard, together with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, surprised MLB fans by enabling the new payment technology at both the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants...
High-end fashion retailer Neiman Marcus is rolling out a new feature in its mobile app that won’t just let customers search for products they like, but lets them buy the products seconds after they see an item on the street, according to Internet Retailer. Get...
If you’re going to go mobile payments, then really do it. That seems to be the approach of Wells Fargo, which is paying credit card customers $20 to sign up for Apple Pay. Debit and prepaid customers will only get $10 to sign up and...
In the weeks following the Apple Pay debut, players in the industry have been figuring out ways to complement, or compete against, the new mobile payments juggernaut. Within the world of mPOS, that means Apple Pay is being worked into existing platforms – a work...
Although it’s widely known that Apple Passbook is an area that very few shoppers have bothered with yet, what is less clear is why and whether Apple Pay’s repeated use of Passbook is going to motivate shoppers to try it directly. A report from Flagship...
