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3 Post-COVID Benefits of Contactless Payments for Retailers (and 3 for Customers)

Retail TouchPoints

Contactless payments skyrocketed in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic while cash payments plummeted. This was partially attributed to the diminished capacity to shop in-store, but was also connected to the fear of viral transmission via both shared payment terminals and cash itself. Benefits for the Retailer.

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How Kogan is using real-time data to improve decision making

Inside Retail

per cent drop in Q3 sales and flagged plans to reduce inventory levels and operating costs to preserve margin. But over the last year, it has also invested in giving managers across the company access to clear and understandable business intelligence reports in real time, a fortuitous move that could now help it get back on track.

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ARA – the voice of Australia’s retail community

Inside Retail

On behalf of our members, we make strong, effective representations to ministers, government departments and agencies, regulators, authorities, and other entities in determining the framework within which Australian retailers operate.

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Which Approach To Self-Service Grocery Checkout Will Emerge As The Standard In 2023?

Retail Minded

Although self-service checkouts were first introduced in 1986 , they are still far from perfect. University of Leicester’s Adrian Beck, a retail finance expert, estimates that moving half or more of transactions to self-service pushes losses 77% higher. Self-service scanner apps are the simplest and most widely adopted method.

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The store associate of the future

365 Retail

Retailers need urgently to digitise store management processes, and communications and training as the role of the store worker changes, says Fabrice Haiat, CEO of YOOBIC. Worse, they expect even better service than ever.

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From fast food to autos, India’s digitally connected users lure investors

Inside Retail

China saw a jump in consumption from 2006 when, as per World Bank data, its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) crossed $2,000. Vahia is one among India’s young and aspirational 1.4 billion population, whose propensity for online spending has attracted global companies and digital platforms. They pumped in a net $2.7

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Why Retailers Need Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration: 5 Tips to Flexible, Scalable, Customized Payment Infrastructure

Retail TouchPoints

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. A No-Win Payments Scenario. This software is generically called “payment orchestration.”