Apple Pay training documents are now again pointing to Monday (Oct. 20) as the date when Apple wants retailers to start offering shoppers Apple Pay, according to a MacRumors story. This seems to be verified by a 9to5Mac story that quoted from a memo from...
You can get a store credit card at just about any retailer. The standard question has left consumers with the often split-second choice of asking themselves at checkout: Should I open this credit card? The short answer: Yes and No. Rewards can be high, but...
A b2b UK startup has established $400,000 in funding to launch video technology that will bring together fashion and commerce for a new interactive online shopping experience. Smartzer, founded in 2012, secured funding from entrepreneur Jamie True and a group of undisclosed private investors —...
Marvin Ellison, a veteran senior exec at Home Depot, has been named the new CEO for JCPenney. “The department-store chain, struggling to emerge from $3 billion in losses in the past 3 1/2 years, today named Ellison its next president and chief executive officer. He’ll...
With a requirement of being able to accept NFC at all stores right away, it’s not surprising that the list of retailers with no plans to immediately support Apple Pay is huge. Add to that fact that some chains have competitive reasons to shun Apple Pay...
The preparations for Apple Pay’s launch are in motion, with a Walgreens memo saying that it will launch Saturday (Oct. 18). “Customers that participate in Apple Pay will immediately be able to use the service,” said the Walgreens memo to store managers, according to a...
Online retailers face losing at least a fourth — sometimes nearly half — of their customer base at checkout because of hurdles like consumer distrust of website payment methods, lacking preferred payment, wonky or slow sites and caveats of having to register too much personal...
A U.S. Patent application that Apple filed in late May was published Thursday (Oct. 9) and it provides some delightfully geeky peeks into what appears to be Apple Pay—or at least how Apple Pay was envisioned a few months before launch. For example, the filing...
Experimenting with opening its first brick-and-mortar, Amazon has taken over a 12-story building in the heart of the most famous shopping district in the U.S., on 34th Street in New York City, a block from Herald Square, right near Macy’s headquarters. Plans are to be...