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Gen Alpha Is Coming: How to Prepare for the Next Generation of Payment Preferences

Retail TouchPoints

Born from 2010 onward, Gen Alpha has grown up surrounded by smartphones, voice assistants and digital wallets. As they move closer to adulthood and gain spending power, their expectations around payments will be higher, faster and more digitally integrated than anything retailers have encountered before.

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Decoding the global trends shaping the future of retail

Inside Retail

KPMGs 2024 Apac seamless commerce report suggests Gen Z shoppers (born 1995-2010) are now so heavily influenced by what they see on social media and livestreaming, that 63 per cent said social commerce is most important to their shopping experience, followed closely by livestreaming (57 per cent).

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What Is GoFundMe? Understanding the Popular Fundraising Platform

Small Biz Trends

Keep What You Raise: GoFundMe operates on a “keep what you raise” model, meaning users receive all donations collected, even if they do not meet their initial fundraising target—which helps alleviate financial pressure. Canada, and the UK, but a payment processing fee of 2.9% plus $0.30 plus $0.30

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Amazon opens robotic fulfillment center in Massachusetts

Retail Dive

Daily Dive M-F DTC Weekly Every Tuesday Marketing Weekly Every Wednesday Tech Weekly Every Thursday Operations Weekly Every Monday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe at anytime. About 32 million items are in-stock at the fulfillment center, per the press release.

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How Formula One became marketing’s latest playground

Inside Retail

In 2018, the most prominent brands with trackside sponsorship during the season were tyre brand Pirelli, logistics giant DHL and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Malaysian petroleum company Petronas has been a naming rights sponsor of the Mercedes team since 2010.

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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. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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Cryptocurrencies are the Future of Payments: Here is How Merchants Fit In

Retail TouchPoints

Reinventing Payments: The Entry of Bitcoin. Bitcoin began as a concept to revolutionize payments in 2008, and today stands at a total valuation of more than $1.1 Bitcoin began as a concept to revolutionize payments in 2008, and today stands at a total valuation of more than $1.1