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Apple Pay dominates US contactless payments

Apple Pay dominates US contactless payments

10 years ago Amanda
Apple Pay is dominating contactless payments in the US, taking two thirds of the share. For every…
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10 years agoApple Pay dominates US contactless payments
Revamp your space with a digital 'feature' wall

Revamp your space with a digital ‘feature’ wall

10 years ago Amanda
Digital walls are being recognised as an effective way to provide an enhanced shopping experience. B…
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10 years agoRevamp your space with a digital ‘feature’ wall
What do consumers want from the Internet of Everything?

What do consumers want from the Internet of Everyt…

10 years ago Amanda
According to a recent survey by Cisco – ‘customers want a convenient, contextually relevant shopping…
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10 years agoWhat do consumers want from the Internet of Everyt…
Cash Still King With Millenials

Cash Still King With Millenials

9 years ago admin
It’s becoming more and more important to really understand how consumers are paying for things, especially in the retail sector, so that businesses can ensure they remain up to date with how their cus…
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9 years agoCash Still King With Millenials
Handy Bluetooth Scanner by SocketMobile

Handy Bluetooth Scanner by SocketMo…

10 years ago admin
At the recent RBTE show (Retail Business Technology Expo) in London I saw the Socket Mobile Cordless Hand Scanner (CHS) Bluetooth barcode scanners for the first time. I couldn’t help but think, when I…
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10 years agoHandy Bluetooth Scanner by SocketMo…

The Exchange – Is this the ultimate sales tool for retailers?

Here’s a fun promotional product that’s creating many a lively night in pubs, bars and clubs across the globe, that may well work for retailers too. It’s called The Exchange from JPD Worldwide and reports to be an unrivalled tool for driving sales and changing customer buying behaviour by turning it into a drinks-based stock exchange for a night.

Vendors running the system are finding that approximately 90% of sales on the night are made up of featured products and that gross profit is unaffected

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Retailers must react to mobile device sales

It’s do or die, for retailers yet to embrace a mobile version of their website.

The adoption of m-retail is growing so fast that one in three of all UK online sales are now made on a mobile device.

Tablets account for the majority of sales with smart phones taking more of a back seat. However, mobile devices are now delivering almost half of all website traffic, with the clothing websites reaching tipping point by receiving over half of their visits from m-devices.

Moss Bros recently saw the relevance

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Tesco’s ‘futuristic multichannel journey’ for 2014

A digital wallet, Scan as you Shop Mobile, Clubcard check-in and Clubcard voucher prompting, are all to be a part of Tesco’s ‘futuristic multichannel journey’ for 2014.

The services will complement the retailer’s growing digital portfolio that already includes a magazine app, one-touch add-to-basket function and Click & Collect.

Robin Terrell, group multichannel director, told a group of investors yesterday: “In 2014 these futuristic multichannel journeys are going to be a reality

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Peoples’ haste benefits contactless payments

Contactless transactions have more than doubled in growth and are set to continue to rise as adoption of the technology increases.

Payment provider WorldPay has reported annual growth of over 226% and said that contactless payments trebled between 2012 and 2013. In the UK, the provider processed 43.6 million contactless payments in December 2013, up from 12.5 million the year before.

Speed and efficiency were rated as the top reasons to use contactless by 93% of users, WorldPay research stated

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Faster payments at Welcome Break

Welcome Break, UK motorway service operator, has increased its service levels with a bespoke unified payment service.

Retail communications provider Vodat International has worked with Welcome Break to integrate the technology into the company’s electronic point of sale (EPoS) system and rolled it out across all of its twenty-nine sites.

Unified Payments provides UK retailers with a single fast secure interface for all electronic-fund-transfer (EFT) transactions generated through stores, e-commerce

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