SQUARE: Next-Gen Payment Tech in Entrepreneurs’ Hands
Last March, we mentioned in a Retail Paradox Weekly article that Twitter creator Jack Dorsey had formed a new startup, Square, to offer a little square credit card swipe device for the iPhone,...
View ArticleA Sci-Fi Retail Future Thought Up by Bankers
I attended two conferences last week – the CARTES North America conference and the Digital Signage Expo, both in Las Vegas. CARTES is not the kind of conference that a lot of retailers attend. This is...
View ArticleThe Future of Payments is Red Hot
Omni-channel retailing and customer centricity have been sweeping their way through the customer-facing side of the retail industry for at least the last five years. But one area that has languished in...
View ArticlePayments: Ground Zero for Omni-Channel Impact?
The landscape of payments is like quicksand beneath retailers’ feet these days. No sooner has a group announced a coalition designed to bring clarity to payments’ future than a technology company or...
View ArticleWhy Amazon is OK and Google is Not
As I write this article, I have just finished reading a WSJ article about how Amazon is thinking about diving into the payments space, something that I can imagine retailers aren’t too thrilled about....
View ArticleDid PayByTouch Have It Right After All?
I don’t spend as much time rooting around in the depths of the technology stack as Brian does, but every once in awhile there are developments that emerge from the murky depths of hard-core technology...
View ArticleYes, I Have Tried Apple Pay
Last week I wrote an article about how bad the EMV situation appears to be in the United States as we near some big deadlines for deployment. Today, I have a happier story to write about the payments...
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What Can Holiday Shopping Teach Us About Payments?
This Holiday Season, we’ve been sharing some rarely-seen data from a project we took on last year, partnering with PayPal to find out where the breaks are between retailer perceptions of in-store...
View ArticleBig Banks vs. Retailers On Chip And Pin
Cybersecurity is on everyone’s mind and somehow, I’ve found myself in the middle of the conversation. What I’ve learned is completely befuddling. Hence, I posted the following piece on Forbes right...
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Payments: What’s The Hangup?
At RSR, we talk and write a lot about payments. It’s an important topic to us because it’s so important to retailers. After all, the payment part of most POS systems tends to be the most...
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