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Despite Covid, Holiday Retail Sales Beat Expectations Handily, the NRF Says
The numbers are in, and it turns out the holiday shopping season was not only better than expected, but also better than the one in 2019, weeks before the coronavirus pandemic struck in the United States. Retail sales in November and December totaled $789.4 billion, up a healthy 8.3% over …
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Retail Payments in 2021—And Beyond
New technologies like pay-by-link and click-to-pay will get a workout this year. With 2020 unlike any other year in our history, it is certainly challenging to predict what the future may hold. One thing is clear, though. There has been an extreme shift in consumer behavior, and that shift is …
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Registration is now open for the retail IT channel’s #1 trade show, education conference, and networking event! Join RSPA and retail IT channel leaders at RetailNOW 2021, July 25-27 at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville.
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COMMENTARY: In the Age of Covid, It’s Time For Retailers to Shift to Digital Offers
Covid-19 has been highly disruptive to the U.S. retail sector, with research estimating sales will fall by 10.5% this year. The same forecast suggests small, mainly brick-and-mortar retailers will see a 14% drop in sales. Even now, months after the pandemic’s first appearance in the U.S market, forty-five percent of …
Read More »With a Deadline Looming, National Retail Solutions Markets a Retrofit for EMV at the Pump
National Retail Solutions, a POS platform provider for independent convenience stores, is reselling an EMV at the pump retrofit kit from Sound Payments Inc. under its own brand that can significantly reduce station owners’ EMV compliance costs. NRS is calling the technology the NRS EMV EZ Pump Solution. The retrofit …
Read More »Fraud and Retail E-commerce: Prepping Trust and Safety Teams for an Unpredictable Holiday Season A Webinar
When it comes to fighting fraud during this year’s holiday season—a time when, any other year, e-commerce would likely be booming and fraudsters would be after the usual targets—all we can really expect is change. Now more than ever it is important to be proactive with your trust and safety …
Read More »Mastercard’s Streamlined Retail and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 8/28/20
Circle K, Delaware North, Dunkin’, and White Castle are among retailers working with Mastercard Inc.’s Shop Anywhere and AI Powered Drive Through services, which aim to reduce customer waiting times and checkout lines while offering vehicle recognition, voice ordering, and artifical intelligence for drive-through lanes.Point-of-sale installment lender Affirm Inc. announced it is providing …
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