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Why Retailers Need Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration: 5 Tips to Flexible, Scalable, Customized Payment Infrastructure

Retail TouchPoints

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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PayPal Offloads Happy Returns to UPS

Retail TouchPoints

The company was acquired by PayPal a little over two years ago as part of PayPal’s ambition to expand beyond payments and become a “ digital commerce enablement engine.” As competition in the digital payments sector has increases, PayPal’s stock is trading at near its lowest levels since it was spun off from Ebay in 2015.

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How Merchgirls supercharged business growth by 300% during the pandemic

Inside Retail

Established in 2015 by Hannah Chipkin and Pippa Joseph, Merchgirls quickly became the go-to merch solution for companies that wanted something different to the traditional merchandise offering. Reduce costs with fulfilment optimisation. Expert shipping services for clients of all sizes. What were the results?

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Meet Missfresh, the Chinese grocery retailer offering 30-minute delivery

Inside Retail

Speedy delivery is the name of the game for supermarket retailers all over the world right now, as major chains invest in micro fulfilment centres and explore dark stores in an effort to keep up with customers’ rising expectations during the pandemic. By the end of June 2021, Missfresh operated 625 mini-warehouses in 16 cities in China.

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As Aldi scraps click and collect, why are the discounters dodging ecommerce?

Retail Gazette

In stark contrast to the majority of its rivals, Aldi scrapped the last of its online operations as it folded its click-and-collect service last weekend. However, some have argued that the discounters’ lack of online focus, which is more costly to service than in-store shopping, is not a bad thing.

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5 Things to Know About Amazon’s New ‘Style’ Clothing Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon Style will actually be the company’s seventh physical retail format, which all began with Amazon Books way back in 2015. Amazon said associates will also be key in providing customer service, managing back-of-house operations and helping customers check out. There will be humans working the store too.

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The Future of Retail: 9 Ways Alibaba is Redefining Retail Stores

Indigo 9 Digital

Three years earlier in 2015, eCommerce giant Alibaba opened its first Hema supermarket in China. True to form Hema stores also double as fulfillment centres for Hema’s online grocery orders. Stores as fulfillment centres. Digital payments including facial recognition. This service is even faster than Amazon’s.