Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2022

Your online checkout is an opportunity to give customers what they want, there and then. So it’s crucial not to fall at the final hurdle. Secondly, you could attempt to recover declined payments through automated, intelligent retries at a later time or date when shoppers are most likely to have money in their bank account.

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Small Biz Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Customers can buy things from your e-commerce online storefronts and/or website using the data stored in their Amazon account. They can shop with Amazon Pay at your store. It works through an Amazon Pay button at online stores. Or through Alexa and their payment methods in their Amazon.com accounts. What is Amazon Pay?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St. Customers will be able to use their Schnucks Rewards account with the carts, providing them with access to clipped promotions and allowing them to view weekly circular deals as they browse the aisles. “We

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

Who could forget the long queues outside of Kmart at midnight on the eve of restrictions lifting last year?” observes Teaj Sian, Managing Director at Glory Global Solutions (Australia). Of course, physical retail has had to undergo a few changes since the first wave of Covid, particularly at entry, payment and checkout.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

Shopify – the commerce platform powering 25 per cent of online retail in Australia – is equally proficient at managing in-store retail transactions, making it the go-to supplier of solutions for retailers transacting across multiple channels. In this day and age, that is pretty much every Australian retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Sika Health — a payment solution that enables ecommerce merchants to accept Health Spending Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) payments — has launched a new marketplace where consumers can shop directly for HSA- and FSA-eligible products.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cybersecurity company Kasada recently revealed that cybercriminals have compromised more than 15,000 customer accounts of Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez, liquor retailer Dan Murphy’s, streaming service Binge, home shopping network TVSN and Event Cinemas since November.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 30, 2023

In the competitive environment of e-commerce, most consumers expect businesses to offer them fast and easy checkout. In other words, if you want to keep up with other brands, you must improve the speed at which your customers can complete their transactions. One of the factors affecting checkout rates is your landing page.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Online shoppers have more options at their fingertips than ever and have developed a fickle tolerance for user experiences they consider clumsy, slow or just plain inconvenient. Passwords are at the heart of the issue and account for 30% of all abandoned online purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

At full capacity, the facilities, to be located in North Little Rock, Ark.; Dollar General plans for the DG Private Fleet to account for 40% of all its drivers by early 2023. “We The remodels may be part of a plan to roll out 200 completely self-checkout stores this year. Aurora, Colo.; and Salem, Ore.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

With the Just Walk Out technology, staff members can use their employee badges to pay for items by scanning it at the entrance to the hospital’s food and beverage concessions. Non-staff members can use credit cards, mobile wallets, QR codes or the Amazon One palm payment system to enter and shop at the checkout-free stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For shoppers, paying for the items they want is a necessary evil at best and a complicated chore at worst (especially online). For the enterprise solutions we have Pay with Venmo checkout, which is the integrated checkout button that you see as you’re checking out with large businesses such as the Grubhub s and Lyft s of the world.

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VMS

DECEMBER 27, 2021

and Canada, has opened a new 24/7 self-checkout concept in Canada, the brand’s first such store in North America. The frictionless format gives customers the flexibility to shop around the clock via a Wurth eShop account. To access the store, customers log in to their eShop account and request a QR code.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

One of the most common complaints customers have is waiting too long in checkout lines. Instead of the typical time-consuming payment process in stores, facial recognition technology can identify the customer and automatically charge their account for a fast, secure self-service checkout experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Becoming proficient at navigating these obstacles is key to protecting retail profits. As consumers faced higher prices at the gas pump, grocery stores and other places, many cut back on their spending, increasing the competition among retailers. Inflation and the Incredible Shrinking Margin.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2021

Amazon has deployed its Just Walk Out technology for the first time in a full-size grocery store with the opening of its new Amazon Fresh location in The Marketplace at Factoria in Bellevue, Wash. In addition to Just Walk Out Shopping, customers also can choose to check out using traditional checkout lanes staffed by Amazon Fresh employees.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout. Digital wallets address both issues by storing card data for shoppers and by shielding it from retailers at checkout. Streamline Your Checkout Process for Busy Parents and Students.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It opened the store in Holborn, central London, on Monday, yards away from similar checkout-free stores from Amazon and Tesco. Sainsbury’s has opened a checkout-free store in central London (Sainsbury’s/PA). With no tills, no checkout lanes, and no self-service scanners, we can’t wait to hear how busy Londoners enjoy the experience.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Upon finding them, suspicious chargebacks, account takeovers and bot attacks will likely appear in the gaps where your attack surface is weakest. Particularly at a time when stores are rushing to offer customers a click-and-collect checkout option , security friction and checkout conversion are often positioned opposite one another.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

EWS also said that if a sizable number of merchants enable the wallet it might also explore adding other payment options, such as direct payments from bank accounts. ” With streamlined checkout (no more remembering that 16-digit card code) and enhanced security features, digital wallets are becoming increasingly popular.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Iconic is the latest victim of ‘credential stuffing,’ a scam that resulted in customer accounts being used to place fraudulent orders, some totaling thousands of dollars, dating back to November last year. Deep fakes were once a futuristic concept that was seen to be concerning, but more for entertainment purposes.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

Shoppers can apply for either Walgreens card in real time at checkout. The retailer is using Synchrony ’s dApply technology to streamline the application process and the Quickscreen pre-approval engine for a real-time credit check that can enable opening an account in seconds.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Amazon will let Whole Foods customers “skip the checkout line” at two new Just Walk Out-enabled locations, in Washington, D.C. We can’t wait for customers to experience this effortless, convenient new way to shop at Whole Foods Market.”. and Sherman Oaks, Calif., set to open next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon shoppers will be able to add their Venmo account as a payment method for their Amazon account and even set it up as their default payment option. The deal also is a boon for Venmo, which is steadily building its reach beyond its peer-to-peer payment roots with integrations at retailers both large and small. “We

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On the Ikea Family account, customers need to create a ‘Gift Registry’ with their desired products and share this list with their family and friends to browse, choose and complete purchases online or at an Ikea store near them. The Gift Registry and the in-store App Checkout will make shopping simpler and more exciting.”.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

Square’s Square for Retail POS is designed as a smart partner to connect every tool that keeps your retail business moving, allowing you to grow at scale, incorporating payments, inventory, e-commerce and beyond. Square’s system also allows retailers to accept returns at any location and seamlessly process exchanges.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Instacart, a popular grocery delivery service, deactivated shopper Jason Via’s account after a mix-up involving a Walmart self-checkout. This led to a year-long battle, leaving Via financially strained and at risk of losing his home.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The issue with this is that both retailers and customers have to have accounts set up in the same exchange platform. It also requires businesses to create a digital wallet, obtain a shareable QR code and keep track of every checkout location. Do you ever think about the customer instincts at checkout?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2023

Amazon has expanded its reach in the payments arena with the the launch of Express Payout for Amazon Pay merchants and the reported expansion of its cashierless checkout to 200 stores. More than 50 were at independent retailers, stadiums and universities, with the remainder in Whole Foods and other Amazon-owned locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) also thrived over the past year, rising nearly 78% to account for 1.6% Most businesses now have the ability to accept a wallet, whether that’s Apple Pay or Amazon Pay or whatever it might be,” said Dan Brames, Head of North America Merchant at FIS in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2023

Customers can then support the needs of their local school by rounding up their purchase total and donating the change at checkout, or by purchasing items on a school’s Spark Good Registry.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

At the moment a “ couple hundred U.S.-based The move follows a similar trajectory at Google , which has been continuously adding more features to make itself central to the online shopping experience, including the recent debut of a new checkout flow. Bing accounts for approximately 25% of total monthly search volume in the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Independent Queensland grocer Skippys Fresh Frootz has garnered attention on social media for its videos highlighting its low prices at a time when Australia’s major supermarkets are facing scrutiny for their lack of transparency in their price-setting practices. Private-label brand sales account for 18.1

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2023

store will soon offer the Amazon Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that lets shoppers skip the checkout line altogether. The Amazon Dash Carts have been available at Amazon Fresh Stores since 2020 and are now rolling out to select Whole Foods locations — SouthGlenn will be the fourth. Additionally, the SouthGlenn, Colo.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2023

We’re very conscious that we don’t want to slow down our checkouts for the 99 per cent of customers who do the right thing, so we’re very focused on making sure that [staff] intervention in our self-checkout areas is as low as possible,” Davis said.

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

The idea eliminates checkout lines. Let’s consider first the effects of Just Walk Out on retail environments: No checkouts equals 8-12% floor space saved. No checkouts affords a more motivated customer-facing team. And Amazon now offers other retailers this same ability. The genius is the technology helps rather than deflects.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

Members can manage their account, discover new products and access unique content, including helpful tools and expert advice, all through the app. In addition to the ability to earn points, loyalty members will also gain access to the new Celebrations Passport app featuring a more streamlined experience.

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