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The Real Price of a Data Breach in Retail

Retail TouchPoints

This data, which includes sensitive customer information like credit card details, is stored across a number of environments and is accessible through millions of point-of-sales and IoT devices. From ecommerce, logistics and digital marketing, these sectors are heavily reliant on data for their day-to-day operations.

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Retail Risk is Serious Business – and it’s Time we Acted Like it

Retail TouchPoints

From a risk and compliance perspective, defense, finance, tech, and healthcare are generally thought of as the riskiest industries but the retail sector is more vulnerable than it might appear. Card skimmers may cause $1 billion a year in losses, but cybercrime causes more than a dozen times that number.

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How Retail Businesses can Reduce Credit Card Fees

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Many businesses rely on point-of-sale (POS) systems that use integrated software. A veteran of the finance industry, Eric Cohen founded Merchant Advocate. By learning how to spot and address these issues, businesses can reduce costs and increase their revenue. Strategies to Reduce Fees 1. Improve software integration.

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The Six Trends Quickly Reshaping the Payments Industry in 2025

Retail TouchPoints

For instance, digital wallets are expected to account for more than $25 trillion, or 50% of all online and point-of-sale transactions, by 2027. The global BNPL market, led by companies like Klarna, Afterpay, PayPal and Affirm, is meanwhile projected to grow from $560.1 billion in 2025 to $911.8 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 10.2%

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How AI is Helping a Brooklyn Thrift Store Amp Up Both Sales and its Environmental Impact

Retail TouchPoints

Resellers are good clients of thrift stores in their own right, but this new class of secondhand shoppers also has brought to light the fact that the thrift stores themselves many of which are nonprofits designed to finance other social initiatives could often be making more money.

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Weathering the Storm: How Retailers can Ensure Resilience Amid Rising Cloud Outages

Retail TouchPoints

In his career, he has written backend, frontend and messaging software for travel, finance, commodities, sports betting, telecoms, retail and aerospace industries. Rob Reid is a Technical Evangelist at Cockroach Labs based out of London, England.

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Crisp Acquires Atheon Analytics and ClearBox Analytics to Unlock Global Retail and CPG Data to Optimise Retail and Food Service Supply Chains

Retail Focus

ClearBox Analytics has deep expertise in combining ERP data, trade spend data and retailer data, driving unparalleled visibility to C-suite, finance, supply chain and sales functions. The acquisitions bring over 120 UK and multinational customers onto the Crisp platform. said ClearBox Analytics CEO Mark Smith.