More and more food, grocery and consumer-goods retailers are finding success in using online channels to grow sales, and many are turning to their suppliers for help in developing mulitichannel initiatives. Many such merchants, however, still have much work to do to maximize their online...
Given that Walmart’s own mobile payment plan—MCX, now branded as CurrentC—has no plans to go live nationally until next year, the world’s largest retail chain will not initially support Apple Pay, which is accepted to start accepting payments next month. But the anti-interchange mode of...
On the one hand, Apple and PayPal have been partners for almost a decade, notes ReadWrite, going all of the way to the early iTunes Music Store days. But given that PayPal has been actively pushing its own mobile payment app as a retail in-store...
French cosmetics manufacturer L’Oréal has finally finished off a massive redesign of its corporate supply chain with one simple goal in mind—getting better data about both its buyer and consumer relationships. Simple goals have a way of becoming very complicated in execution and the end-to-end...
New York City’s two competing systems to pay for cab rides by mobile app have struck a truce, so passengers no longer have to guess which one works in what cab. On Wednesday (Sept. 10), VeriFone, whose Way2ride system worked in about half of NYC’s...
For those corporate employees who get frustrated by the slowness of decisions and the glacial pace of deployments, take comfort in the fact that this slowness was a gift for cyberthieves who wanted to—and successfully did—attack Home Depot. The attackers literally took advantage of the...
Earlier this year, Amazon.com’s AmazonSupply, the online marketplace’s B2B operation that’s in beta, began exploring the U.S. wholesale and distribution market. It may be about to do the same in India. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
The white Priuses with the San Francisco logo on the side could be all but a memory by 2027, if a proposal by Supervisor Mark Farrell to phase out vehicles and light duty trucks from the city’s fleet over the next 13 years. In place...
Procurement techsperts Zycus is partnering with Michigan State University’s Dr. Tobia Schoenherr on major new procurement technology (PT) research initiative to determine what the impacts, best practices, satisfaction levels, pain points and ideal situations are for procurement tech, with the eye toward seeing its expansion....
