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How to Accept Payments Online in 2023

Ecommerce Platforms

Accepting a payment online is easier than ever before. Whether you’re a retail shop with a simple website, or a startup ecommerce store interested in accepting online transactions, there’s always room to expand your business with help from online payment processing. How Do You Accept Payments Online?

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Amazon Plans Chainwide Rollout of Palm-Based Payments at Whole Foods

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion.

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Retailers Must Embrace Financial Services, and Quickly

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers know that customer engagement must be the focus of their marketing efforts. And it’s increasingly clear that brands that embrace financial services within the customer journey are scoring highly on engagement scores. Many customers bail at this point.

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Dollar General Voids Self-Checkout at 12,000 Stores, Citing Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

Dollar General will continue to offer self-checkout in a “limited number of stores, most of which are higher volume and low-shrink locations,” added Vasos, who was brought back as CEO in October 2023 after an initial seven -year stint in the job. For its Q1 2024, which ended May 3, 2024, Dollar General’s net sales reached $9.9

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Shining a Light on a Growing Ecommerce Threat: Chargeback Fraud

Retail TouchPoints

Experts report that chargebacks will cost merchants over $100 billion in 2023, and false claims and abuse of the chargeback process are a growing threat to merchants. The hidden expenses of wasted time, expensive fees, penalties or additional losses of goods and services add up. trillion in 2023.

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Walgreens Exec: Operational Excellence Makes 1-Hour Delivery Promise a Reality

Retail TouchPoints

Any retailer that’s attempted to provide pickup and delivery services knows how fraught (not to mention expensive) they can be. But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. She credited solid partnerships with courier services such as DoorDash and Uber in making these goals achievable.

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Target Rolls Out 10-Item Self-Checkout Limit Chainwide

Retail TouchPoints

The 2023 pilot showed that the self-checkout experience was twice as fast at stores with the Express model compared to those without. “By Despite some consumer and retailer complaints about self-checkout , the technology is well entrenched in retail store operations.

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