9 Retailers Making Multiple Moves in Mobile, Online Payments

Published July 5, 2013 3:04 PM

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Jamba Juice Co. drinks are taken away by a customer at a store in Emeryville, California, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. Jamba Juice Co. plans to develop 15 news stores in Missouri and Kansas over the next nine years, according to a company press release. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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Jamba Juice

The smoothie maker built its menu around variety and choice, and is applying the same philosophy to its payments strategy. Working with PayPal, Jamba Juice allows customers to order and pay ahead of time with their PayPal accounts. Jamba Juice also accepts the Isis mobile wallet for contactless purchases. (Image: Bloomberg News)

A customer holds money at a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Little Falls, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. McDonalds Corp., the worlds largest restaurant chain, said sales at stores open at least 13 months rose 6.7 percent globally last month as beverages and Chicken McBites helped the U.S. business. Photographer: Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg

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McDonald's

While McDonalds is a staple of the American diet, it has been pushing many new payment methods overseas. This year, McDonalds began supporting mobile payments from Seamless in Kuwait and Sweden. Plus the restaurant has launched contactless and mobile payment initiatives in Ireland and Canada. (Image: Bloomberg News)

Amazon.com

Amazon.com recently launched Amazon Coins, a virtual currency meant to be used with its Kindle tablets. It also launched Amazon Birthday Gift, which lets users send virtual gift cards to friends on Facebook. And although Amazon.com doesn't accept bitcoins, BitPay allows merchants that use Amazon's fulfillment services to take the virtual currency.

A Wal-Mart store stands in Stratford, Connecticut, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will announce second quarter earnings on Aug. 16. Photographer: Paul Taggart/Bloomberg

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Walmart

Walmart is a key player in the Merchant Customer Exchange mobile wallet. It also works with American Express to offer the low-fee Bluebird prepaid card, which attracted 575,000 account holders in its first three months. Walmart has also been a critical partner for companies like Green Dot. (Image: Bloomberg News)

A customer holds Starbucks Corp. beverages as she exits one of the company's coffee shops in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee-shop operator, reported fiscal second-quarter profit in April that met analysts' estimates as U.S. customer traffic improved while sales stagnated in Europe. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

A customer at a Starbucks in Berlin, Germany.

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Starbucks

The coffee brand has been a leader in mobile payments with its own mobile app, which is used for 10% of its U.S. payments. But Starbucks, as an investor in Square, also accepts the software-based Square Wallet and sells Squares mobile card reader on its shelves. Starbucks also supports PayPal as a funding method. (Image: Bloomberg News)

Rain falls on the Target Corp. logo displayed outside of a store in Peru, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Target Corp. led U.S. retailers to the biggest monthly same-store sales gain in more than a year as shoppers snapped up discounted merchandise chains were clearing out after the holidays. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

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Target

Target has been a key partner for many emerging payments initiatives. It helped Starbucks expand its mobile payment app from 16 stores to 1,000 stores in 2011. It also provided critical feedback to shopkick as it fine-tuned its mobile rewards app. And years before U.S. issuers began offering chip-and-PIN cards, Target briefly put chip-card readers in its stores. (Image: Bloomberg News)

A man carries Macy's Inc. shopping bags while walking through the Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 12. 2012. Sales at U.S. retailers probably fell in October for the first time in four months economists said before a report on Nov. 14. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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Macy's

Macy's modified the music it plays throughout its stores to improve the use of shopkicks sound-based mobile rewards system in 2010. Macy's also supports the Isis mobile wallet. (Image: Bloomberg News)

The M&S company logo is seen on a window inside a Marks & Spencer Group Plc (M&S) food hall in the Westfield Stratford City retail complex in London, U.K., on Thursday, June 27, 2013. U.K. retail sales rose more than economists forecast in May as consumers spent more online and food sales increased at their fastest pace for more than two years. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

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Marks & Spencer

U.K.-based department store Marks & Spencer claims to be the top contactless retailer in the U.K., handling 230,000 contactless transactions per week. M&S is also part of the Mobile Money Network, a joint venture to build a standard for mobile payments. (Image: Bloomberg News)

The Nike Inc. logo is displayed at the entrance to the company's store in the East Nanjing Road shopping area of Shanghai, China, on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. China's services industries grew at the fastest pace since August as gains in retailing and construction aid government efforts to drive a recovery in the world's second-biggest economy. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

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Virtual Cards, Virtual Currency

Merchants such as Nike, Burger King and American Eagle work with Gyft to provide mobile gift cards to customers to use in-store. In doing so, these merchants also indirectly accept the virtual currency Bitcoin, which Gyft accepts as payment for the virtual gift cards it sells. (Image: Bloomberg News)