Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

As ecommerce has become a part of everyday life, customers have felt empowered to take control of their checkout experiences both in-store and at home. A recent study found shoppers of all demographics are warming up to the idea of self-checkout, seeing it as a faster option that eliminates the need to wait in line.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has reportedly filed a lawsuit against one-click checkout service Bolt , claiming that the solution provider failed to deliver on promises in a contract related to the implementation of the technology, according to Bloomberg , The Business Journals and other media sources.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

Delek US Holdings will implement AI-powered self-checkout at more than 70 Delek DK convenience stores in Texas by late summer 2021, through a partnership with Mashgin. Mashgin’s autonomous self-checkout is 300% faster, frictionless, and social distance-friendly. Mobile wallet usage rose 60% to account for 9.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Cards have become by far the most popular payment method, with contactless now accounting for most purchases made at retail stores. European retailers are increasingly turning to Account-to-Account and Open Banking payment options as a way to increase resilience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We’re seeing vision AI support across all parts of the retail business, including back of house, in-store advertising and media, store checkout and curbside pickup. Additionally, this reduces cloud costs and improves ad traction and purchases, while also taking privacy factors into account.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

To maximise sales and reduce drop-offs during checkout, merchants need to deliver a seamless, reliable checkout journey from start to finish, commented Moshe Winegarten, Chief Revenue Officer of Ecommpay. Arguably the most important section of a customer checkout is the payment page, as this is where most drop-offs seem to occur.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using the Amazon “Just Walk Out” technology, Grubhub Campus has introduced cashierless checkout at convenience stores at Loyola University Maryland. Students, faculty and staff scan a QR code to enter the store, pick their items and leave, with the payment deducted from their student meal plan or other stored payment methods.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It opened the store in Holborn, central London, on Monday, yards away from similar checkout-free stores from Amazon and Tesco. Sainsbury’s has opened a checkout-free store in central London (Sainsbury’s/PA). With no tills, no checkout lanes, and no self-service scanners, we can’t wait to hear how busy Londoners enjoy the experience.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

CVS Pharmacy has implemented touch-free checkout using PayPal and Venmo QR codes at all 8,200 standalone retail locations, reaching a milestone set at the start of the partnership in July 2020. Those without existing PayPal or Venmo accounts can sign up and link their preferred payment method within minutes.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 28, 2025

Aldi has started taking a 10 deposit from shoppers looking to enter its checkout-free store in Greenwich. However, customers may be left waiting several days for the 10 to return to their account if they walk out empty handed. The deposit is then deducted from the cost of the shop on exit.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

Bolt raised $355 million in its Series E funding round, bringing the checkout and shopper network solution provider’s funding total to nearly $1 billion. Lead investors include funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with participation from Schonfeld, Invus Opportunities, H.I.G. Growth and CE Innovation Capital.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

According to the latest data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), merchandise returns are projected to reach an astounding $890 billion in 2024, accounting for approximately 16.9% With the holiday season just concluded, the challenge of managing merchandise returns is a reality for many retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2025

While these have met with varying success, its clear that addressing the product returns problem will require a consistent, holistic, multi-pronged approach that takes into account virtually every aspect of the pre- and post-purchase process.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. YDs one-page checkout also streamlines the process, removing the hassle for customers to place an order.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2022

Bold Commerce has launched the Bold Checkout: Buy Now solution. The solution uses stored address and payment credentials from customers’ accounts, with the goal of reducing friction for repeat buyers and reducing checkout times. Buy Now is designed to make any retailer-owned touch point shoppable.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. YDs one-page checkout also streamlines the process, removing the hassle for customers to place an order.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Your POS system needs to account for that. Each device can perform core transactional functions — such as the ability to accept card and cash payments and scan products for efficient checkouts — offline. Sales associates need robust POS solutions. Remember all the things associates are expected to do in stores?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Catalysts plug-and-play design has helped streamline essential tasks, like cart-to-checkout integration and customer account management, which reduced development efforts. Enhancing Site Speed and Reliability Uplift started the transition to Catalyst in August and spent approximately 10 weeks of development time.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

Customers will be able to use their Schnucks Rewards account with the carts, providing them with access to clipped promotions and allowing them to view weekly circular deals as they browse the aisles. “We

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Small Biz Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Customers can buy things from your e-commerce online storefronts and/or website using the data stored in their Amazon account. Or through Alexa and their payment methods in their Amazon.com accounts. They need an Amazon Seller Account too. For shoppers: Sign in to your Amazon account. What is Amazon Pay?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Payments are a critical link between our brands and millions of URBN customers who expect checkouts to be as easy as trying on or adding items to a cart,” said Dave Hayne, CTO at URBN in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

Dollar General plans for the DG Private Fleet to account for 40% of all its drivers by early 2023. “We The remodels may be part of a plan to roll out 200 completely self-checkout stores this year. The self-checkout option reduces store workload to improve efficiency for associates, according to COO Jeff Owen.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For the enterprise solutions we have Pay with Venmo checkout, which is the integrated checkout button that you see as you’re checking out with large businesses such as the Grubhub s and Lyft s of the world. We actually have tens of millions of people who just have Venmo accounts. one in three Americans have a Venmo account.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2021

In addition to Just Walk Out Shopping, customers also can choose to check out using traditional checkout lanes staffed by Amazon Fresh employees. Anyone shopping at the new Amazon Fresh store can take advantage of the technology, which connects to the customer’s Amazon account or credit card.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2025

Our checkout is fully integrated with Australia Post so we can make sure that what were telling the customer at checkout is reflective of whats actually going to happen, Ludwik says. We also liaise directly with our account manager if we have any questions or concerns about missed deliveries. Ready to take your next step?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

Of course, physical retail has had to undergo a few changes since the first wave of Covid, particularly at entry, payment and checkout. The other side of the checkout experience is assisted service, when the cashier helps and engages with the customer. “In Offering choices: Self-service vs assisted service, cash vs non-cash payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout. Digital wallets address both issues by storing card data for shoppers and by shielding it from retailers at checkout. Customers who can pay easily without security fears are more likely to complete checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The issue with this is that both retailers and customers have to have accounts set up in the same exchange platform. It also requires businesses to create a digital wallet, obtain a shareable QR code and keep track of every checkout location. Do you ever think about the customer instincts at checkout?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2023

Retailers often think about the checkout process as if it’s an isolated obstacle separate from the rest of the shopper journey, particularly on mobile devices. Even so, retailers can benefit when they view checkout challenges in the context of shoppers’ full range of expectations.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The new functionality offers features including seamless account management and checkout processes and the ability to view, search and browse an entire product catalog online. Headless commerce provider commercetools has added B2B functionalities to the core offering of commercetools Composable Commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Sika Health — a payment solution that enables ecommerce merchants to accept Health Spending Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) payments — has launched a new marketplace where consumers can shop directly for HSA- and FSA-eligible products.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The app allows associates, which Levi’s calls stylists, to access customers’ Red Tab loyalty program accounts (with their permission), giving the stylists the data they need to make better recommendations.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 23, 2024

From pottery collectors to British ex-pats who are familiar with the brand, to younger customers who recognise its Halo cup from the Netflix show Squid Game, Denby’s key markets include South Korea, China, India, United States and Europe which, pre-Brexit, accounted for a sizable proportion of revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

One of the most common complaints customers have is waiting too long in checkout lines. Instead of the typical time-consuming payment process in stores, facial recognition technology can identify the customer and automatically charge their account for a fast, secure self-service checkout experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Specifically, bot operators continue to siphon retailer profits with increasingly sophisticated automated threats — including account takeover, web and API scraping and more. According to the 2022 State of Bot Mitigation Report , nearly 70% of companies using anti-bot solutions lost revenue to bot-driven account fraud.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Amazon will let Whole Foods customers “skip the checkout line” at two new Just Walk Out-enabled locations, in Washington, D.C. Customers at these new Whole Foods won’t have to use JWO if they don’t want to, they can instead choose to use self-checkout lanes. and Sherman Oaks, Calif., set to open next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

The delivery platform also has created a Wallet feature; live activity tracking for orders in process; add-on recommendations at checkout; and a more automated process for reporting problems with an order. Customers can request re-delivery of their order with no fees, or a full refund back to their account, without having to talk to an agent.

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