When it comes to credit card perks, the wealthy might not be that much different from the average guy, according to a survey done by CreditCards.com. Whether a consumer has $100,000 in the bank or just $1,000, cash back rewards appear to be the favored...
Can iBeacons boost customer engagement? That’s what every major player in the retail market wants to know. But one smaller grocer is testing it out for themselves. Independently owned Woodman’s Foods, which also allows for employees to own a share of the business that operates...
The big trend in payments is to move away from in-house payments processing systems to SaaS-based platforms that are easy to deploy, configure and enable new capabilities. What’s driving this trend, says i2c CMO Marc Winitz, is the need for both the control and flexibility...
It may still be more than a week until Chinese New Year on Feb. 19, but China’s online war of the Red Envelopes is already well underway, Tech in Asia reported. On one side is Tencent, which dominates Chinese social media with its WeChat messaging...
Wendy’s is looking to payments as a way to pull customers in and keep them returning. The fast-food chain is installing a standardized point-of-sale system in more than 2,600 locations to use as a mobile marketing platform, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. The common POS system,...
Cash-back shopping service BigCrumbs.com will be offline for as long as three weeks after discovering that some of its members’ accounts had been compromised — even though the site itself doesn’t appear to have been breached, ECommerceBytes reported. While the company effectively completed its analysis...
HeartThis wants to make shopping across multiple retailers easy with a smartphone. When the new social commerce app makes its official debut today at StartX’s demo day, 300 retailers will suddenly be online together under HeartThis’s roof. Dillard’s, Nordstrom, Kohl’s, J Crew, and Target, among...
As merchants increasingly explore the realm of mobile payments, they are starting to explore ways to steer consumers toward certain purchase decisions, including which payment tender to use. And while those solutions are today being brought to market by innovators, that doesn’t mean financial institutions...
Beacons, it turns out, aren’t just for the big kids. The Niemann Foods supermarket chain is putting iBeacons in all 45 of its County Market stores across Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, according to Mobile Commerce Daily. That makes Niemann one of the first independent grocery...
