mPOS started as a way for micro merchants to turn mobile phones into point of sale terminals and has evolved over the years to become a platform for small merchants to professionalize and manage their retail and service-based businesses using mobile phones and tablets. The...
The consumer shopping experience is becoming ever more customized, soon to predict purchases in real-time. Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions announced yesterday (May 4) that it is teaming up with analytics company SAS to create technology that will apply advanced predictive analytics at various points of...
As the physical and digital worlds of retail continue to interweave, more and more beacon solution providers across the market are recognizing the need for retailers to have better tools to gather data on their customers. But Gimbal, for one, is in a unique spot,...
Every consumer has faced it. Susan starts out trying to buy a relatively simple item – new sheets, a toaster. Maybe it starts as an innocent stroll through the Home Electronics section at the local Target, or a quick glance on Amazon – but that...
The migration to EMV in the US, as MPD CEO Karen Webster discussed earlier this week in a live digital discussion, is putting a new face on point-of-sale. New capabilities including talking POS systems, large interactive tablet screens, and wearable devices are transforming the purchase...
Three heavy hitters in the payment-card industry are trying to smooth the path for small merchants to support EMV chip cards by launching an education and pre-qualification program for the companies that provide their card processing connections. On Thursday (April 30), the Payments Security Task...
Millennials like self-checkout — but they’d like it even more if they could use mobile payments there, according to results from a new survey commissioned by location-based mobile marketing vendor Retale. While 20 percent of the survey’s 1,000-plus U.S. adult respondents said they’d like to...
French startup Lydia launched with a simple idea: become the alternative to Venmo for French users. The firm’s amibitions have expanded since launch, however, and nowadays users can also shop on eCommerce websites through Lydia. And the app is now ready to go on the Apple Watch, which...
Since its creation of the first mechanical typewriter in 1884, NCR has been a standard part of the American retail experience. That experience has grown to include POS devices and the product the firm is most known for – ATMs. But as of late the...
