Retailers

WeWork has gotten its share of bad news this year, but parts of its concept are filtering into small business retail, providing one clue of what the next wave of shopping and payments will look like.

The new decade will see Generation Z become adults, and they will expect more services and activities to be facilitated by their device of choice, says Zoomd's Omri Argaman.

Removing the checkout means removing a key bottleneck that retailers rely on to sell tabloids, gum and candy.

The region is technologically advanced, but still has a large percentage of underbanked consumers, says PPRO's Javier Vallaure.

Payments technology operator Nets’ Creation Lab has launched a pilot that uses facial recognition alone to authorized payments with one merchant in Copenhagen.

When a crisis does strike, all too often organizations struggle to coordinate ongoing, speedy and effective responses, even when they have valid and compelling things to say, according to RockDove Solutions’ Chris Britton.

As more industries explore the potential of providing faster access to wages, restaurant management software provider Delaget has partnered with financial wellness mobile app provider Branch to expand the reach of instant earned wage access availability.

With customers now having the opportunity to onboard across multiple devices and channels, or even through a call center, the likelihood of an inconsistent experience is drastically increased, Neal Keene of Intelledox says.

American shoppers were quick off their marks early in the holiday-shopping season as retailers rang up the best sales increase since 2013, led by online purchases, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research report.

Those yard-long paper receipts that spew from cash registers may be following plastic bags and foie gras into the dustbin of New York City history.