Retailers Slow to Adopt Mobile POS, Study Finds

While the use of mobile tablets (such as the iPad) as point-of-sale devices is growing rapidly, with shipments increasing at a rate of 38 percent in 2013, many retailers are still slow to adopt them, according to a new study from research firm IHL Group. The mobile POS market will surpass $2 billion in hardware/software sales in North America in 2013, and 28 percent of North American retailers plan to adopt mobile POS in some form by the end of 2013, said the study, called Mobile POS: Hype to Reality.