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Resilience is Key as Payments Acceptance becomes Mission-Critical

Retail TouchPoints

Starting at the POS Acceptance Device High availability starts by selecting POS models that have been manufactured to high-quality standards, incorporating reliable components and capable of communicating via both store telecommunication links and fast cellular data networks.

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Mastercard is getting rid of credit card numbers. Cards themselves may be next

Inside Retail

While strengthening the security attached to credit cards, removing numbers shifts the vulnerability to mobile phones and telecommunication providers. This technology is available at more than 70 Amazon-owned stores, and at more than 85 third-party locations across the US, UK, and Australia.

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Put Your CPG Brand Where the Foot Traffic is to Stay Competitive

Retail TouchPoints

Observing consumers’ physical behaviors through anonymized GPS location data helps marketers identify customers’ new movement patterns, which indicates a lot about their interests, preferences and characteristics. POI data can also help CPGs optimize vending machine placements, physical site selection and enhance delivery routes.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

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? The issue with this is that both retailers and customers have to have accounts set up in the same exchange platform.

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Key Disaster Preparedness Takeaways for Retailers from an Eventful Summer

Retail TouchPoints

Take Stock of the Inventory Amid the digital transformation of retail, technologies such as SquareSpace have become more commonplace at the point of sale, while self-service kiosks and cashierless checkouts are now ubiquitous. Invest now to save later. He can be reached at EdSpears@Eaton.com.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 270 – Microservice based commerce platforms with Kelly Goetsch

Retail Geek

And then behind the scenes were actually seven vertical teams so we have a team focused on checkout we have a team focused on product catalog. And then any one of those teams can release to production at any point during the day so in many cases we’re releasing two production two three four times a day. [12:43]