China’s 618 shopping festival was closely observed for signs that the consumer will help spend the nation out of COVID-19, and the success of the event shows that is a likely outcome. The country’s online gross merchandise volume (GMV) for a three-week period in early June jumped...
Cloud point of sale and mobile checkout company Skip has teamed up with guest experience platform Paytronix Systems to beef up shopper engagement, push revenue growth and increase store traffic, Skip announced on Thursday (Feb. 27). “Today’s shoppers expect a frictionless, personalized experience, and this...
Mobile checkout is getting a boost from one of the largest retailers, further evidence of the technology’s continuous move deeper into the consumer mainstream. According to a report from Chain Store Age, “7-Eleven is introducing mobile checkout to select locations in New York City. The new...
Amid a double-digit increase in digital sales and a focus on omnichannel efforts, Kohl’s Corporation beat analysts’ top-line revenue and earnings estimates for the fourth-quarter of 2018. The department store retailer reported revenues of $6.8 billion and earnings per share of $2.24 compared to analysts’...
February 16, 2024
Nearly five years after Click to Pay was introduced (initially as Secure Remote Commerce), Jennifer Marriner, EVP, Global Acceptance Solutions at Mastercard, told Karen Webster, “The actual use cases are much broader than we ever might have envisioned,” spanning consumer facing and B2B transactions. Online acceptance — storing payment information using tokenized, virtual cards — […]
November 08, 2018
Cashierless payments are set to increasingly be part of the convenience store checkout model. To that end, 7-Eleven said earlier this week that is debuting scan-and-go options at 14 of...
October 25, 2018
Before 2009, when Square launched in the U.S., the world of payments wasn’t terribly friendly terrain for small and micro-businesses looking to accept credit cards. The process was convoluted, and...
February 20, 2018
Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. No, this is not Morse code. It’s, in words, what a bad mobile checkout experience sounds like. Some things in life are ephemeral and hard...
February 27, 2020
Cloud point of sale and mobile checkout company Skip has teamed up with guest experience platform Paytronix Systems to beef up shopper engagement, push revenue growth and increase store traffic, Skip announced on Thursday (Feb. 27). “Today’s shoppers expect a frictionless, personalized experience, and this integration gives mobile-enabled customers greater benefits than those using the […]
March 05, 2019
In an effort to make Scan & Go a bit quicker, Sam’s Club, owned by retailing giant Walmart, has developed and is testing an app that uses a camera for...
November 16, 2018
With the approaching holiday season, mobile checkout options are ready for customers at Target and Walmart. Target’s “Skip the Line” service has now reportedly been deployed across the country, as Walmart...
April 20, 2018
Walmart announced on Thursday (April 19) that it is testing Check Out With Me, a new service that will speed up checkout for Walmart Lawn & Garden Centers around the...
