Mobile Payments

Amazon.com has built a convenience store in downtown Seattle that deploys a gaggle of technologies similar to those used in self-driving cars to allow shoppers to come in, grab items and walk out without going through a register. The 1,800-square-foot store, officially dubbed “Amazon Go,” is the latest brick-and-mortar initiative from the e-commerce giant, which already…

A merchant-centric wallet can bring digital into the physical store. An app that brings together engagement, loyalty and payments.

This webinar examines consumers’ buying behaviors across global markets to help retailers better serve their payment wants and needs.

Kohl's announced yesterday that its mobile payment option, Kohl's Pay, has launched nationwide. Kohl's Pay integrates the Kohl's private-label credit card, store offers, rewards and other perks into the retailer's mobile app, which can be applied from the device at checkout. Kohl's Pay works on iOS and Android devices. Total Retail Talks: Kohl's is following…

Facebook announced yesterday that its Messenger bots can now accept payments natively without sending users to an external website. The credit card info people already have stored in Facebook or Messenger can be used to instantly make purchases in bots that are part of the new closed beta the developers can apply for. Total Retail's…

A trio of experts, including Joe Megibow, president of Joyus; Matt Kennedy, senior director of digital marketing, Wal-Mart; and Bob Bentz, author of “Relevance Raises Response: How to Engage and Acquire with Mobile Marketing,” answered a series of questions via email on how retailers are using mobile to better serve today’s always-connected consumers. (For some…

CVS Health has launched its own mobile payments solution that will allow customers to pay for products, pick up prescriptions, earn loyalty rewards, as well as pay – just by scanning the barcode in the CVS mobile app. CVS aims to eliminate the number of steps it takes today to complete a checkout, which today is…

Completing a transaction on a smartphone can be a pain for shoppers. Each website or app has its own login information for customers to first remember and, second, enter into a very tiny space on a very tiny screen. And at some point — whether it’s during the login creation or at the beginning of…

If you’re a retail business owner looking for ways to better serve your customers and make the shopping experience more enjoyable, mobile credit card processing may be for you. While mobile credit card processing is fairly new and delivers many benefits to both businesses and consumers alike, there are still several concerns surrounding mobile processing…

Walmart Pay has launched in 14 more states on top of a slew of rollouts earlier in the month. While not available yet in all of the retailer's stores (we count 33 states plus Washington, D.C.), it's getting close. This latest deployment includes heavily populated states like California, New York and Washington, so you're far more…