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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

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Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. Self-checkout kiosks are ubiquitous today, but they add to the security challenges retailers face.

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Retail x Fintech: The Importance of Security in Retail’s Adoption of BOPIS and Payment Installment Plans

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This enables consumers to turn their mobile phone into a payment tool at a kiosk, or easily choose a card when completing a transaction on their favorite retail site. So if a hacker does manage to infiltrate a retailer’s system, there is no useful information to steal. The Fraud-Fighting Expertise of Fintechs.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

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But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. The palm images, after being entered in a kiosk at the 65 locations, link shoppers’ palms to payment cards. Happy New Year. INFLATION ON. YOUR MIND. OF YOUR HANDS.