Square has two new offerings: the revamped Square Online Store and Square For Retail, introduced in an announcement by the company on Wednesday (March 20). The two products will “offer sellers the tools to have one cohesive solution to start or grow an omnichannel business,” and...
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...
You know your stature by the enemies you make, right? That’s the old saying at least. Well, “enemy” might be too strong a term — business is not war — but Square this week found itself a target of First Data and Fiserv, two big payments...
In a move to target small and medium-sized businesses and hospitality companies, HP has announced it has teamed up with PayPal to release what it calls an “all-in-one” point of sale (POS) unit, with PayPal handling the payment processing and other financial-related services. According to...