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Report: Contactless Payments Gain on Credit Cards
Report: Contactless Payments Gain on Credit Cards
January 19, 2022  |  Payment Methods

Credit cards may be consumers preferred way to pay, but contactless methods are waiting in the wings. The latest installment of PYMNTS’ Next-Gen Debit Tracker,...

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Aldi Launches London Pilot of Cashierless Supermarket
Aldi Launches London Pilot of Cashierless Supermarket
January 19, 2022  |  Unattended Retail

Aldi is piloting its first cashierless supermarkets open to the public in Greenwich, London, on Wednesday (Jan. 19) following a successful trial of the technology...

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Trigo Tries Frictionless Stores for Supermarket Co-Op Wakefern Food Corp.
Trigo Tries Frictionless Stores for Supermarket Co-Op Wakefern Food Corp.
January 14, 2022  |  Artificial Intelligence

Israel-based frictionless checkout company Trigo and retailer-owned cooperative Wakefern Food Corp. on Thursday (Jan. 13) announced a partnership for an autonomous supermarket pilot that uses...

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i2c: 2021 Was the Year of Adaptability
i2c: 2021 Was the Year of Adaptability
January 14, 2022  |  Opinion

New payment technologies and options helped businesses adapt under the strain of the COVID pandemic, says i2c President Jim McCarthy. Look for the future to...

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Central Bank of Ireland: Stores Can’t Refuse Cash Payments
Central Bank of Ireland: Stores Can’t Refuse Cash Payments
December 29, 2021  |  Payment Methods

The rapid rise in popularity of digital and contactless payments in Ireland has caught the attention of a leading consumer association when some stores reportedly...

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LG Adds More Unmanned Retail Shops to Meet Contactless Shopping Desires
LG Adds More Unmanned Retail Shops to Meet Contactless Shopping Desires
December 29, 2021  |  Retail

LG Electronics is expanding the number of its unstaffed retail stores from the original nine, which opened in May, to 19 as of Wednesday (Dec....

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UnionPay, VNPAY, ECPay Bringing Contactless QR Code Payments to Vietnam
UnionPay, VNPAY, ECPay Bringing Contactless QR Code Payments to Vietnam
December 28, 2021  |  Cross-border Payments

Card acceptance firm UnionPay is collaborating with financial services company VNPay and payments platform ECPay to give shoppers in Vietnam the ability to make contactless...

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Latin America’s Embrace of eCommerce, Digital Payments Marks Cultural Shift
Latin America’s Embrace of eCommerce, Digital Payments Marks Cultural Shift
December 21, 2021  |  Payment Methods

The adoption of digital payments and the number of people who are doing their shopping online has accelerated rapidly in Latin America this year. While...

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Open-Air and Touchless Shopping Drive Innovation Amid Rekindled Demand Surge
Open-Air and Touchless Shopping Drive Innovation Amid Rekindled Demand Surge
December 20, 2021  |  Retail

Here’s a concept: shopping without the act of actually shopping is perhaps the new future of retail. Traditional consumer foot traffic is still keeping the...

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