Retailers

Rebellious retailers are fighting to halt the reverse creep of Black Friday into Thanksgiving Day.

Merchants’ frustrations with the painful U.S. EMV shift could come to a head this week when Black Friday kicks off the crucial holiday shopping season with large swaths of the merchant landscape unable to handle EMV transactions, more than a year after the U.S. EMV liability shift.

EBay Inc., struggling to turn itself around and catch up with dominant Amazon.com Inc., has invented a new day: Mobile Wednesday.

The app will be available at 7,500 Starbucks locations in the U.S. and 1,400 Best Buy locations, and is part of a much broader rollout that's expected to last into early next year.

The EMV migration has been sluggish, but it's a vital part of protecting cardholders.

The Scan & Go mobile app went live last month at Sam’s Club, allowing consumers to scan their own items as they shop and pay within the app, an innovation that could cut down on checkout lines.

The two-year old APASS has helped Alibaba persuade wealthier consumers to up their spending at Tmall and Taobao shopping emporiums.

By collaborating with consumers' favorite products or retailers, loyalty programs can get an extra punch.

Merchants are still slow to adopt mobile point of sale systems. But improvements in usability and longer battery life can turn that around.

Evidence exists that in most markets in which public regulators oversaw EMV implementations, the results were much better for merchants and consumers.