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Amazon Plans Chainwide Rollout of Palm-Based Payments at Whole Foods

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion.

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How digital payments can help businesses lead in customer experience

Inside Retail

The acceptance of cash has started to trend upwards again, but payment technology is helping businesses to deliver consistently better experiences, so what does the future hold? And how can businesses be ready for evolving payment technologies? Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online.

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RFG settles unconscionable conduct case brought by ACCC

Inside Retail

ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said: “We are pleased that RFG has agreed to make payments to certain impacted franchisees. We initially took this action because we were concerned with the alleged conduct and the impact on a number of small business operators. Michel’s marketing fund. Waiving historical debts.

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RFG settles unconscionable conduct case brought by ACCC

Inside Retail

ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said: “We are pleased that RFG has agreed to make payments to certain impacted franchisees. We initially took this action because we were concerned with the alleged conduct and the impact on a number of small business operators. Michel’s marketing fund. Waiving historical debts.

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Consumers and Merchants Should Look Before They Leap into BNPL Services

Retail TouchPoints

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment options. Research by The Ascent showed that among people who have used a BNPL service, 45% first did so in 2019, 21% first did so in 2020, and only 7% had used a BNPL service prior to 2015. billion, according to IBISWorld.

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Reject Shop brushes off wage theft class action as ‘immaterial’

Inside Retail

However, in a statement, the retailer responded that “any under-award payments to team members, will be corrected” adding Adero Law has not clarified the details of the claims. “To To date, The Reject Shop has not received a copy of Adero’s class action.

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Target to Spend $5B to Enhance Operations in 2022, Plans 250 More Ulta Beauty Shop-in-Shops

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Other areas of investment announced by the retailer include: Top-to-bottom renovations of 200 existing stores, bringing the total percentage of remodeled stores to more than half its fleet since the effort began in 2017.