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The Digital Checkout: How Tech is Revolutionising Online Transactions

Retail Focus

Financial institutions must rapidly adapt to fulfil client demands for smooth, frictionless transactions while maintaining optimal security standards. Further advancements in decentralised finance (DeFi) may emerge, wherein blockchain technology facilitates a novel epoch of peer-to-peer payment systems devoid of conventional intermediaries.

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Making Fulfillment a Revenue Driver: 6 Ways Design and Tech Can Collaborate

Retail TouchPoints

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Nicholas believes that to make store fulfillment a truly profitable initiative, retailers need to find new ways for their tech, operations and design teams to collaborate.

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Social Commerce Revolution: How Payments Innovation Transformed the Digital Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Critical milestones in the journey are no longer confined to a traditional retailers ecommerce site or checkout cart. Distance and concerns like shipping complexity become an afterthought, and platforms are increasingly setting a high bar for reputable merchants that can fulfill products in a timely manner.

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Embedded Finance: Making Payments Possible in New Frontiers

Retail TouchPoints

In fact, embedded finance will be a $777 billion opportunity by 2029. What’s really exciting about embedded finance is the simplicity of making complex payments accessible to a wide range of people and businesses, and the creative innovations that are opening new use cases and new opportunities. So how can businesses get a piece of it?

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With 30-Minute Delivery Service, Kroger and Instacart Raise the Stakes in the Convenience Space

Retail TouchPoints

has partnered with Instacart to launch Kroger Delivery Now, a virtual convenience store fulfilled by Kroger that delivers fresh groceries and household essentials in as little as 30 minutes. Convenience orders on Instacart are up more than 150% since May 2021, and nearly 20% of shoppers choose Priority Delivery at checkout.

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City Furniture Overhauls Ecommerce Approach to Create Highly Customized Shopper Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

For example, this industry has very large order values, a longer customer journey and very different fulfillment methods. Similarly, shopping online for high-priced items means that financing and payment can become confusing if not executed well.

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Big Lots Plans to Open 500 New Stores, Increase Annual Sales to $8-10 Billion

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer plans to accomplish this goal with an overall enhancement of its ecommerce experience through personalization, search improvements, simplified checkout, the addition of financing options and the rollout of nationwide same- and two-day delivery.

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