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796Protecting eCommerce Merchants From Fraud
Merchants have to participate in eCommerce if they want to maintain relevancy in today’s economy, but their engagement in online transactions also exposes them...
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1.1KProviding Rideshare Drivers, Tour Guides With Innovative Payments
Gig workers drive passengers with ridesharing services or conduct tours, comprising a growing segment of workers. Many of their payments, however, are sent...
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981Innovative Sales Models And Technologies In Retail
Consumers pay a significant amount of money for beauty products, with much of the prices set by middlemen. Function of Beauty, however, aims...
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1.5KRenting Furniture, Smartphone Chargers With Retail Innovation
Furniture is helping to build a larger retail ecosystem, with the value proposition of Oliver Space centered around providing furnishings, along with design help, to...
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1.2KGiving A Dose Of Innovation To Healthcare And Pharmacies
Healthcare providers must often wait to get paid by insurance company partners for the patient treatments they have already administered, but digital tools...
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1.4KNew Ways To Buy Candles And Explore Cuisines With Retail
Scented candles are available in many places, from stores dedicated to them in shopping centers to many checkout stands. Companies such as Otherland, however, are...
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987The Rising Tides Of Buy Now, Pay Later And Flexible Ownership
The success of buy now, pay later (BNPL) adds to the pressure to stand out as an installment payments provider. Competition in the space...
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1.4KTackling Subscription Churn And Fraud With Tech
The subscription business model is growing sharply around the world, but the industry is also dealing with the twin challenges of fraud and subscriber churn....
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840Investing In Health And Product Authenticity With Retail Innovation
Counterfeiting is a thriving business, and marketplaces that specialize in reselling luxury items have heavily invested in authentication procedures. Mercari, in one case, rolled...
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1.4KDelivering Coffee And Groceries To Consumers With Automation
Coffee retailers are driving ordering innovation with digital technology. Luckin Coffee, for its part, is entering the automated retail market with the rollout of a...
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1.4KReaching Millennial Travelers With Payments Technology
Hotels, airlines and homesharing platforms need strategies to satisfy the travel needs of four generations of jetsetters, who each have different booking...
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1.1KThe Revivals Of Malls And Unattended Retail
U.S. shopping malls have reached the pinnacle of struggle, with empty shops hitting a 20-year high, but the American Dream mega-mall may be bucking the trend. The...
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1.2KRevving Up The Latest Retail Trends With Autos
Auto sales are driving retail trends, as online marketplace and auction site eBay has released a new eBay Motors app. At the same time, Carvana, a firm that...
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1.3KEarning Subscription Customers In A Crowded Market
The video streaming landscape is swamped with companies, and providing unique content might not be enough to earn subscribers. The pressure is on for...
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1.4KCharting New Retail Courses With Fitness And Beauty
iPhone app-enabled marketplaces such as Trainiac are letting consumers work one-on-one with a personal trainer. The trainer, in turn, helps the customer make and keep their...
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1.9KMaking Vitamins A Consistent Consumer Habit With Subscriptions
The share of younger adults taking vitamins has consistently climbed, especially in the last five years. Ritual, a vitamin-on-subscription service, is riding the...
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1.4KTaking New Approaches To Retail Stores And Faster Payment Models
Anchor Shops is aiming to keep the parts of the department store experience that are still working, while minimizing the portions that drag down department...
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2.1KDesigning Innovative Retail Stores Around Experiences
Retailers are designing brick-and-mortar spaces around experiences to bring in and retain shoppers. Chinese eCommerce retailer JD.com, in one case, has just rolled out...
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2.1KThe State-By-State Complexities Of Sales Tax Compliance
Retailers that want to sell merchandise nationwide must pay attention to how each state’s tax code treats their goods. For example, products considered to...
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1.2KBringing Food Oases To Food Deserts With Innovative Pricing
Fighting food deserts and flipping them into food oases is no easy task, but innovators are using dynamic pricing to tackle food...
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1.3KEmerging Innovation And Fraud Trends In Consumer Commerce
Cybercriminals are finding it best to approach fraud with an omnichannel strategy, which involves hitting every customer service channel for best results. At...
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1.4KChanging The Playbook For Sustainable Fashion And Local Art
This year, sustainable fashion was “in,” with all sorts of new and established brands advertising their products as designed to be environmentally...
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1.4KInnovating With Mobile Ordering, Personalization Platforms And Alcohol-Free Bars
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are taking note of the potential of mobile ordering, as consumers can have their favorite foods delivered with a tap of...
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1.4KHow Digital Platforms Transform The Way Diners, Travelers Enjoy Meals
Diner demand for mobile order-ahead is changing how brick-and-mortar restaurants are designed and updated. In the coffee industry, in one case, chains are building...
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5.5KHow Payments Trends Will Shape Retail In The 2020s
The combination of smartphones and apps have changed how consumers shop and pay over the past decade. But in many ways, the 2010s...
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1.2KHow Used Cars And Sales Taxes Are Building The Digital Future
Can digital technology really take the hassle out of used car sales – and compete with dealerships and lots? Is there a...
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1.7KGiving The Gift Of Better Payments
Real-time payments are gaining steam this holiday season, and merchants are hoping for more secure transactions as the year ends. The Internet...
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1.4KThe Keys To Big Wins In Payments And Commerce
Artificial intelligence is making strides in a variety of areas, some of them unexpected. Cross-border payments, alternative lending and FinTech are thriving in new ways – and for...
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2.2KNew Paths For Payments And Commerce In The 2020s And Beyond
An Airbnb move could change up payments as customer relationship management ups its own game. Fraud detection systems have a big problem with at least one type of...
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1.6KHow Payments Is Blazing A New Innovation Path
When it comes to innovation, the best is yet to come – at least according to PayPal. That same sense of optimism holds...
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1.9KConsumers Increasingly In The ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Mood
The holidays are here, and that means wallets and purses spring open. Debt loads have been getting heavier too. And among those who...
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1.6KConsumers’ Growing Appetite For Order To Eat
The convenience of mobile order delivery has spurred top-line growth for quick-service restaurants. And, increasingly, several of the marquee names in the...
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2.1KRecurring Payments, Boosting Customer Loyalty – And Merchants’ Top Lines
Subscription commerce, and the recurring payments tied to it, has advantages for consumers and merchants alike. There’s the lure of dependable top-line...
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1.6KFor Consumers, Control (Over Transactions) Is Key
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone. With eCommerce now surging into the holidays, consumers may be mindful of the...
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2.2KConsumers’ Growing Desire For Meals On The Move Via Mobile
A significant number of consumers want their favorite quick-service restaurants (QSRs) to offer mobile ordering via applications. Yet a relatively small percentage of...
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2.3KThe Future Of Retail With Voice-Activated Tech
Voice-assisted and voice-activated devices are increasingly popular, and are becoming much better at reading emotions. Amazon, in one case, announced the debut of new Alexa...
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Taking On Sharing Economy Trust, Luxury Retail Evolution With Innovation
Sharing economy platforms have become a force to be reckoned with, as a sizeable number of consumers use them to make their lives...
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1.6KInnovating To Take On Subscription Churn, Restaurant Orders
Subscription commerce is all the rage and shows every sign of continued growth in the next decade. Churn remains a challenge in the...
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1.7KAs Consumers Embrace eCommerce, Tax Complexity Grows
South Dakota vs. Wayfair was only the beginning. The Supreme Court ruling has started the ball rolling for states and municipalities to...
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1.5KOnline Marketplaces Attract Consumers – And Fraudsters, Too
Payments made through the platform economy, through the online marketplaces that bring together individual buyers and seller – sometimes far-flung – happen...
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1.6KThe Rise Of Mobile Order-Ahead And Experiential Retail
Mobile order-ahead has had a substantial impact on the restaurant industry. The prevalence of delivery has increased since last year, primarily due to...
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886Making Coffee And Clothing More Accessible With Retail Innovation
Food brands are making coffee more accessible by packing the energy-boosting ingredient into snack bars sold by one-time purchase and subscription. In tech, smart mirrors can...
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2.4KDriving Retail Innovation With Digital Technology, DTC Models
Wrench is serving as a mobile source of mechanics – and saving consumers a trip to the auto repair shop. In retail, the Flat Tummy Instagram brand was...
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2.0KIn The eCommerce Age, Consumers Want To Control Authentication
Fraudsters are getting ever nimbler at tricking consumers into divulging information that is then used to compromise accounts. Against a backdrop where eCommerce...
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2.2KCommerce At The Speed Of Instant
When the question is about how to do something better as we head into the 2020s, the answer is to make it...
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2.0KAmid KYC/AML – And eCommerce – Biometrics Gain Support
Customers want speed and security when transacting online or with various FIs and merchants. The problem is that fraudsters have increasingly been...
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1.9KMonetizing An Increasingly Connected World
The universe of smart devices and connected things is undeniably growing by the day – name a common household item and there...
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5.2KHow ‘Ghosts’ And Visuals Build Better Commerce Ecosystems
“Ghost” kitchens are changing the food delivery game as shopping embraces better visual technology. Challenger banks have a hard, but increasingly clear,...
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2.1KIdentifying Opportunities For Online Commerce And Digital IDs
For online merchants, knowing that the person on the other side of the transaction is who they say there are is of...
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2.1KThe Changing Landscape Of eCommerce Fraud
Fraudsters are wily, striving to stay one step ahead of authentication protocols and other efforts to stop bad actors from compromising consumers’...
