Apple Pay dominates US contactless payments: Apple Pay dominates US contactless payments

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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
What do consumers want from the Internet of Everything?: What do consumers want from the Internet of Everyt…

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According to a recent survey by Cisco – ‘customers want a convenient, contextually relevant shopping…
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Cash Still King With Millenials: Cash Still King With Millenials

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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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Handy Bluetooth Scanner by SocketMobile: Handy Bluetooth Scanner by SocketMo…

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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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Revamp your space with a digital 'feature' wall: Revamp your space with a digital ‘feature’ wall

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Digital walls are being recognised as an effective way to provide an enhanced shopping experience. B…
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The rise of the mobile-wallet

PayPal recently revealed the findings of a study that paints a dim future for the traditional, man-made wallet due to the rise of the mobile wallet.

83% of respondents across five countries preferred the option of not carrying a wallet, according to the study conducted by Wakefield Research among 1,000 credit and debit card holders, ages 18 and older.

Uses of a mobile wallet include financial transactions that can be made both faster by cutting down queue time and easier by not burdening customers

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John Lewis trials trend-setting shopping technology

John Lewis has announced that it is trialling three new retail technologies in its department stores over the festive period.

“We intend to keep investing and innovating in our shops so that they remain compelling and hassle-free places for customers, offering multiple reasons to visit them,” said Simon Russell, director of retail operations development at John Lewis.

“Partly, this will see us use an increasing amount of technology to make shopping easier and offer more in-shop help,”

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Emerging EPoS technologies in retail

As the benefits of electronic point of sale (EPoS) are more widely recognised by retailers, in turn system developers are increasingly looking to push the boundaries. Supporting technology is becoming highly flexible and driving EPoS forward at such a pace that the definition itself is changing in the retail environment.

According to Retail Week’s Innovation Review 2013 there are twenty key technologies sweeping across the retail space at present such as augmented reality, cloud-based communications

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The three big benefits of EPoS

When it comes down to it, faster actions within business, better customer service and cheaper methods of delivery, are the fundamental factors that all players in the retail industry are looking to achieve.

While each company, may it be a fashion, shoe, charity or grocery store, has specific requirements within this, there are ultimately three big benefits an electronic point of sale (EPoS) system can deliver that fulfil the traders’ core concerns. These are: better efficiency

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3 steps to harnessing big data in retail

Retailers have increasing amounts of data at their fingertips, but this is nothing without: 1. a clear strategy of what to use and how to use data in order to compete with other retailers and 2. the correct deployment of a model that can extract and deliver the information required.

For retailers to fully exploit data and analytics three mutually supportive capabilities must be adhered to:

1. Choose the right data

Retailers should identify, combine, and manage multiple sources of data. In doing so

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