Smartphones’ share of online retail sales jumped 50 percent in 2014, and mobile continues to top retailers’ marketing priority lists, according to a new report from Forrester Research. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Are banks ready to hone in on mobile offers delivered via beacons? Beacon network Mobiquity is hoping that’s the case, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Wendy’s is looking to payments as a way to pull customers in and keep them returning. The fast-food chain is installing a standardized point-of-sale system in more than 2,600 locations to use as a mobile marketing platform, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. Get the Full Story...
Beacons, it turns out, aren’t just for the big kids. The Niemann Foods supermarket chain is putting iBeacons in all 45 of its County Market stores across Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, according to Mobile Commerce Daily. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Online shoppers in China are shifting to mobile, and that’s going to push retail e-commerce spending there past the $1 trillion mark in 2019, up from $307 billion in 2013, according to a new Forrester report. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Mobile commerce fraud is costing retailers an average of 3 percent of their total revenues, and the faster m-commerce grows, the more fraud will cost, according to a study released Thursday (Feb. 5). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
In an effort to grow the company’s beauty retail portfolio, Macy’s announced on Feb. 4 that it will purchase beauty business Bluemercury for $210 million in cash, according to The Drum. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of Macy’s first fiscal quarter...
The number of retailers who offer customers a mobile commerce option has doubled in the past year — but m-commerce fraud is growing even faster, according to a new study from LexisNexis. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Current retailer security for protecting credit card and personal information isn’t strong enough. That’s the takeaway from a Bizrate survey released on Tuesday (Feb. 3) that found 60 percent of consumers said payment security is inadequate at brick-and-mortar stores, websites and mobile commerce sites and...
