Retailers want better data for targeting customers, and partnering with payments providers may be a way of getting it, according to a new report from Colloquy. The report, Ally in the Aisles and Online, surveyed hundreds of merchants and more than 1,000 consumers in the...
eBay on Tuesday (Dec. 16) announced that 80 small businesses in Brooklyn have joined the eBay Local program. “We’ve been testing ‘last mile’ options for more than a year. We kicked off the program with a focus on large retailers to scale the program,” said...
Just as online shopping is overtaking the need for physical stores, could an entirely new sales channel become the “next big thing”? SEQR, a mobile wallet provided by global mobile payments company Seamless, has introduced Shop Spot, according to a recent company release. Shop Spot...
United Airlines is testing a new mobile rewards program that awards as many as 24 travel miles for each dollar spent with a mobile app, Mobile Commerce Daily reported on Tuesday (Dec. 16). “Last month, we began offering our MileagePlus X mobile app to a...
Apple took the unusual move Tuesday (Nov. 16) of shutting down all of its online sales in Russia due to what Apple said were “extreme” ruble fluctuations, Bloomberg reported. Those fluctuations cost the ruble as much as 19 percent of its value Tuesday. “Our online...
Square competitor ShopKeep has a deal for new customers: Sign up now for our iPad-based in-store point-of-sale system and we’ll give you free equipment to handle Apple Pay, contactless, traditional magstripe and (eventually) EMV chip payment cards, Re/code reported on Monday (Dec. 15). That free...
An East Coast supermarket chain opened for business on Dec. 8, only to find all of its payment terminals unresponsive — and it wasn’t alone. Last week, several thousand Hypercom payment card terminals at retailers across the country suddenly stopped working because of the expiration...
Mobile payments aren’t quite ready for prime time — at least not in Boston. That’s the conclusion of a Boston Globe writer who tested mobile-payment offerings from several local companies — with limited success. Writer Scott Kirsner did most of his tests using LoopPay CardCase,...
A software glitch on Friday night (Dec. 12) in the U.K. caused “thousands of items” sold by third-party vendors on Amazon to be prices at one penny—and holidays shopped grabbed the bargains. This caused huge problems for many smaller merchants who are paying the ultimate...
