Laundry Payment App Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/23/18

Ready, a company specializing in self-pay software for restaurants, has teamed with Squirrel POS, a supplier of point-of-sale software to the same industry, to allow customers to view, split, and pay their tab on their mobile phones.
Automatic Laundry, which provides laundry-management services for multitenant buildings, announced the LaundryConnect Pay app that enables users with an Android or Apple smart phone to pay for services using a payment method stored in the app.
Walmart Inc. is testing a service called Check Out With Me in the lawn-and-garden sections of about 350 stores; the service enables clerks with portable cellular devices and Bluetooth receipt printers to scan barcodes on products and swipe payment cards, sparing customers from having go to checkout counters inside the store.
Some consumers who use the bank-controlled Zelle person-to-person payments service have been victims of fraud, particularly when sending money to people they don’t know, The New York Times reported.
Some 27% of “Generation Z” consumers, those between ages 13 and 21, use mobile phones most or all of the time to pay for in-store purchases, according to a global survey of 15,600 Gen Zers co-sponsored by the IBM Institute of Business Value and the National Retail Federation.
Boosted by growth in Europe, Russia, and the United States, global remittances grew 7% in 2017 to $613 billion from $573 billion in 2016, the World Bank reports.

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