Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2025

Payment providers are banking on the fact that millions of people will soo n rely on AI to find the perfect sweater, research a new vacation spot or handle their weekly grocery shopping and they want in on the action. These agents will need to be trusted with payments, not only by users, but by banks and sellers as well.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2025

For many years, the idea of everyday consumers paying for items with virtual forms of money, like cryptocurrency, seemed more like science fiction than reality. Some cryptocurrency and payment experts see the centralisation of stablecoins as a period of significant innovation for retailers. What are stablecoins?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2025

This week at Googles annual I/O conference for developers, the company announced several new advances, including a more personalized multimodal AI search experience for shopping queries, agentic checkout capabilities and an enhancement to its virtual try-on tool that will allow users to see products on their own body.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

Once, borrowing money to make a purchase was a relatively tedious process, not a spur-of-the-moment thing. In recent years, though, the financial technology or fintech revolution in the customer credit market has changed all that, with the meteoric rise of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services. But does it also change our spending habits?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The pandemic really accelerated all of these numerous platforms where people can create and share content, [so that now] a consumer can come in at any point in time and easily buy in that second,” said Kaisy O’Reilly, Chief Marketing Officer at Stuart Weitzman during the IAB Connected Commerce Summit.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2025

Choosing the best eftpos machine for a small business is more than just a technical decision its a critical step in building a seamless and efficient payment experience for your customers. Tyro provides eftpos machines designed to meet the specific needs of industries like retail, hospitality and services. Faster checkout times.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2025

In today’s competitive retail ecommerce landscape, where consumer expectations are shaped by experiences from major retailers and marketplaces, brands must go beyond attractive design to deliver experiences that truly convert and retain customers. Success lies in designing digital journeys that do more than look good.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Last month, food delivery company Deliveroo expanded its ‘Deliveroo Shopping’ service into Singapore, enabling consumers to order retail goods on demand, alongside its existing restaurant food and grocery offering. This makes it relatively easy and cost-effective to offer same-day or next-day delivery services to customers.

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365 Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Ahead of showcasing the company’s allin-one payment solution at this year’s Retail Technology Show, Payment Expert Madara Antanavia from Exactly.com explains how e-commerce businesses can improve conversions and reduce acquisition costs while scaling in the UK and beyond.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2025

since 2015 , handled $105 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) and has 93 million active customers and 675,000 merchants using its services. OnePay is backed by Walmart and Ribbit Capital and already is integrated with Walmarts physical and digital channels, offering financial services to its millions of customers and 1.6

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

As one of only 12 agencies worldwide to achieve this recognition, MindArc now offers retailers access to Shopifys highest enterprise support and service level. This milestone achievement validates MindArcs ability to build and scale some of Apacs fastest-growing or largest retail merchants.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

The basic service that a point-of-sale (POS) device provides checking out customers is essential to any retailers functioning. However, the POS itself the software, connections to other retail systems and the increasingly varied hardware has become a less prominent part of the merchants tech stack. Thats not the case anymore.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2025

Jewelry, in particular, sees a surge, but consumers have options. Make life easier for Mothers Day shoppers by offering gift wrapping services or free shipping as a perk for top-tier members. Send reminders to guest checkouts, inviting them to create an account and earn extra points. Thats quite the win.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2025

Stigmatizing tools that drive prices down turns offering deals into a liability, and consumers will end up paying more.” Technological advances now allow retailers of all stripes to adjust their prices based on various data inputs, including consumer shopping histories as well as competitors’ pricing and market conditions.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A recent consumer survey by experience agency ChangeUp identified what customers see as the key benefits of in-store shopping: 66% of shoppers feel more in control of their purchases in-store; 51% believe they get better-quality items; and 43% find in-store shopping enjoyable, highlighting the tactile and visual elements of the experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2025

Image: Retail TouchPoints The stores modesty also belies a larger ecosystem of community-based environmental initiatives dedicated to reusing all kinds of waste , from consumer goods to food scraps. One of the results has been the rise of a new class of online merchants resellers.

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365 Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

Many of these crossovers are driven by changing consumer demands and advancements in technology. The whole process can take minutes to complete. So much so that the e-commerce industry has gone as far as to simplify their processes to save you even more time. Even the deliveries are sent to us.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2025

Australian small and medium businesses (SMBs) using Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services are seeing tangible benefits. By providing customers with greater flexibility in payment options, BNPL provides a better customer experience, driving higher conversion rates and increased average order values (AOV).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2022

Reach , a combined payments, tax and fraud platform designed to improve handling of cross-border commerce transactions, has received $30 million in its latest funding round. The Reach solution powers transactions in 120 local currencies and local processing in more than 40 markets.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Streaming TV platform Roku has introduced Roku Ads Manager, a self-service solution for purchasing CTV advertising. The new solution enables Shopify merchants to launch shoppable ads that allow consumers to check out onscreen using their Roku remote.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

The seamless nature of digital commerce has inspired consumers to expect more from the payment experience everywhere they shop — online, in-store and even via social channels. Customers today expect to be able to shop where and when they want and use the payment method they want.” more compared to their previous buying levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

That inherent distaste for the transaction phase is one reason payment companies are so eager to expand into other parts of the shopper journey. taking place online, digital payment solutions like Venmo and PayPal (which has owned Venmo since 2013) are well positioned to capitalize on the opportunity.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. When we have partnerships with these merchants they’re trusted brands, so consumers can feel good about shopping with those brands.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2023

As the online payments industry continues to evolve, new digital wallet solutions, such as mobile payment apps and e-wallet platforms, are becoming increasingly popular and reshaping the way consumers transact. 4 Pros of Digital Wallets Some of the advantages of digital wallet payment options include: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Regional payments can be complex. For retailers and regional payments, consumer payment preferences play one piece, while checkout optimization and diversification play another. Target consumers’ regional payment preferences. Payments have come a long way over the last few decades.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2022

Mastercard has launched a new Biometric Checkout Program globally that will enable merchants of all sizes to offer contactless biometric checkout experiences based on facial- or palm-based recognition technology. Customers visiting the pilot stores can enroll with their facial and payment information through the Payface app.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

retailer to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone, which allows associates to accept contactless payments using their iPhones without requiring a dedicated payments card reader or additional hardware. Morgan Payments powers the Tap to Pay on iPhone service, which can accept credit and debit cards, Apple Pay and NFC-enabled digital wallets.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

A year on from the introduction of payment platform Flypay to Coles Liquor websites, including Liquorland, Vintage Cellars and First Choice Liquor, the digital wallet has now been expanded to grocery shoppers through Coles Online. Coles isn’t the only retailer investing in payments technology. Exciting time’.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2021

It has been a year of momentous change for the payments industry. Years of transformation transpired in just a few months with rapid shifts in both consumer behaviors and merchant expectations for e-commerce. And how will permanently altered consumer behaviors shape online payment preferences?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2020, 23 million children missed out on basic vaccines through routine immunisation services, leaving them at risk to devastating but preventable diseases,” said UNICEF Australia chief executive Tony Stuart. “We The post H&M opens up donations at checkout to support vaccinating kids worldwide appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Tampa Bay Lightning and Amalie Arena have partnered with Fast to provide a streamlined “headless checkout” experience when fans purchase merchandise. The one-click checkout experience eliminates redirects to merchant sites that require logins and entering additional information.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

With traditional trading methods restricted by pandemic restrictions, an inability to sell through physical locations and a sharp downturn in demand, we saw merchants around the world taking an unprecedented leap and embracing innovation and digitalization in a bid to maintain their retailer-shopper relationships. in March 2020 and by 11.2%

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

With traditional trading methods restricted by pandemic restrictions, an inability to sell through physical locations and a sharp downturn in demand, we saw merchants around the world taking an unprecedented leap and embracing innovation and digitalization in a bid to maintain their retailer-shopper relationships. in March 2020 and by 11.2%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2017, Polywood had a great product sustainability story (its outdoor furniture is made from 100% recycled plastic and comes with a 20-year guarantee) and a solid launching pad for direct-to-consumer sales (a 27 -year history of selling through big box, home improvement and specialty patio stores). It was an involved, intense process.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

The good news is that since its global popularization in 2020, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has become a real game-changer for merchants looking to boost their business. For shoppers, BNPL is a seamless payment method that helps break up their purchases into several installments, bringing more cash flow and budgeting flexibility.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

Once, borrowing money to make a purchase was a relatively tedious process, not a spur-of-the-moment thing. In recent years, though, the financial technology or fintech revolution in the customer credit market has changed all that, with the meteoric rise of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services. But does it also change our spending habits?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Humans have been dynamically evolving the concept of loans and credit in commerce for hundreds of years — culminating in the explosion of consumer credit cards in the 20th century. consumers have now used a buy now pay later (BNPL) service. . consumers have now used a buy now pay later (BNPL) service. .

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