Apple Pay went live five years ago yesterday, on Oct. 20, 2014. When Tim Cook took the stage a month beforehand to announce this mobile payments innovation, he shared Apple’s vision for modernizing how consumers and merchants would interact at the physical point of sale....
The New York Times wrote in April 2017 that the U.S. was in the throes of an epidemic for which there was not only a cure, but one that would cure every single adult suffering from it. The disease: medication nonadherence. According to data from...
The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year mark for any new product, it’s top of the S-curve or bust. Here’s a walk down S-curve memory lane, courtesy of a Harvard...
About 30 days from now, most of you reading this who made a New Year’s resolution will have broken it. Don’t feel too bad – you won’t be alone. By the middle of February, 80 percent of people promising to change their behavior at the...
April 06, 2020
Among its many profound impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered how consumers shop. Even before large-scale stay-at-home policies went into effect, most consumers sought to limit direct contact with people and objects as much as possible when they went out. One might expect that in these circumstances, consumers would be even more inclined to […]
March 22, 2018
The New York Times wrote in April 2017 that the U.S. was in the throes of an epidemic for which there was not only a cure, but one that would...
March 16, 2017
When Apple’s mobile wallet, Apple Pay, launched 2.5 years ago, the conventional wisdom was that the plastic card was about to be as dead as the flip phone, killed by...
July 07, 2016
Six months in, Walmart Pay is officially available in every one of the 4,600+ Walmart stores in the U.S. That rollout, which started on a limited basis in December, literally in...
November 07, 2017
Though Walmart’s mobile wallet, Walmart Pay, has not quite gotten the same level of coverage as its rivals in the field, particularly Apple Pay, it seems possible the QR code-based payment platform might be set to quietly nudge Apple from its top spot on the list, according to reports in Bloomberg published Tuesday (Nov. 7). […]
June 08, 2017
Walmart Pay has been out in wide release for a little over a year — and in that time, it has made some pretty notable strides. According the PYMNTS/Infoscout data,...
November 30, 2016
Walmart shares are up amid a push to boost its eCommerce presence to allow the retail giant to compete with e-retail behemoth Amazon. Walmart’s eCommerce growth also recently accelerated by 12 percent....
November 08, 2016
Reuters reported that Walmart is in talks with several mobile wallet companies to explore offering more payment options for its Walmart Pay app. Chase Pay will be the first third-party digital wallet...