Karen Webster

When Will Consumers Cut The In-Store POS Cord?

When Will Consumers Cut The In-Store POS Cord?
When Will Consumers Cut The In-Store POS Cord?
April 12, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

Netflix first introduced its streaming service in the U.S. in January of 2007. It landed with a bit of a thud with analysts and pundits....

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We’ve Seen The Future of Retail – And It’s At The Grocery Store
We’ve Seen The Future of Retail – And It’s At The Grocery Store
March 29, 2021  |  Retail

The U.S. has 40,460 grocery stores. If you want to see how physical retail might look 20 years from now, you might want to watch...

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What Consumers Say About The Reopening Of The Physical World – And What It Means For Business
What Consumers Say About The Reopening Of The Physical World – And What It Means...
March 22, 2021  |  Digital Payments

The U.S. has mobilized the largest COVID-19 vaccination rollout of any country in the world. The Biden administration has set May 1 as the date...

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Digital Intermediaries Threaten The Payments Status Quo
Digital Intermediaries Threaten The Payments Status Quo
March 08, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

March 19 will mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. lockdown in the face of the global pandemic. Since then, the payments and commerce headlines...

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Walmart’s Bid To Go From Supercenter To Super App
Walmart’s Bid To Go From Supercenter To Super App
February 23, 2021  |  Retail

Thirty-three years ago, in 1988, in Washington, Missouri, the first Walmart Supercenter opened its doors. The store concept itself took a page from the European...

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Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy
Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy
February 01, 2021  |  Commerce Connected

An article published in the Harvard Business Review in August of 2009 posed a question that many airline and travel industry CEOs are pondering 11...

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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week
Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week
January 18, 2021  |  Retail

Every year for the last 110 years, members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the...

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Framing 2021: Six Trendlines That Will Define Payments And The Connected Economy
Framing 2021: Six Trendlines That Will Define Payments And The Connected Economy
January 04, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

Let’s start 2021 being provocative instead of safe with wishy-washy predictions. Karen Webster says let’s drop the prefixes from commerce. Then get our heads wrapped...

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