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Amazon Go provides Amazon with the opportunity to market testing and do advertising on a new group of customer that are not Prime customers or regular Amazon shoppers. The Go Store essentially become a retention and customer acquisition channel for Amazon, writes Hendrik Laubscher, marketplace research director at Buy Box Experts.

In its push to compete more directly with Amazon, Walmart has partnered with American Express, enabling its customers to earn and burn Amex’s Membership Rewards points for e-commerce purchases on Walmart.com.

The Stamford, Conn., issuer of store credit cards has two potential options after the retail giant chose to partner with Capital One. But the decision over which path to take is out of its hands.

Synchrony Financial said its credit-card deal with Walmart won't be renewed and will expire next year. The largest issuer of store cards said Thursday that it's evaluating whether to sell the $10 billion in balances or retain the portfolio and convert qualifying customers to general purpose credit cards.

Consumers are already in shopping mode, so retailers that focus on personalized and targeted offerings, and promotional campaigns around Prime Day can all reap the rewards of the Prime Day halo effect, according to Tom Caporaso, CEO of Clarus Commerce.

About 15% of Walmart’s workforce is budgeting and taking pay advances through the app.

With Walmart reportedly weighing bids from Capital One alongside incumbent Synchrony Financial to handle its private-label credit card account, Synchrony's use of data and artificial intelligence are more important than ever.

The change in store card branding would be a big blow to Synchrony; “equivalence” with EU rules “falls far short” of U.S. banks’ hopes.

Woodforest National in Texas has relied heavily on hundreds of in-store branches and overdraft fees to boost revenue. That is starting to change.

Microsoft is the latest to try to help a big retailer jettison cashiers — and the latest to discover how hard that is.