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What’s in Store for Grocery in 2022?

Retail TouchPoints

In 2022, grocers will focus on providing smart substitutions when items are out of stock and offering recommendations of what else shoppers can purchase, based on each shopper’s individual preferences. Picking the right merchandise assortments and recommending the right products on a 1:1 basis requires artificial intelligence.

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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

The Evolution of Mobile Payments: A brief history of mobile payments, according to TechCrunch : 1983: David Chaum, an American cryptographer, starts work on creating digital cash by inventing “the blinding formula, which is an extension of the RSA algorithm still used in the web’s encryption.” 2008: Bitcoin is invented.?.

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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

Make sure you accept a variety of payment methods. WeChat Pay, a mobile payment solution from the ur-“everything app” WeChat, has become the norm for transactions within China — so make sure you can accept it and display that fact! However you can’t rely solely on WeChat Pay either.

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How To Leverage M-Commerce For Your Retail Business

RetailMinded

Therefore, as a business owner, if your clients are heavy mobile users, it’s best to invest in an M-commerce channel. . The three categories of M-commerce include mobile shopping, mobile payments, and mobile banking. Accept Mobile Payments. This allows you to deliver a better impression to consumers.

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Digital Wallets: What’s Good for the Payments Industry is Good for Retailers…Right?

Retail TouchPoints

As the online payments industry continues to evolve, new digital wallet solutions, such as mobile payment apps and e-wallet platforms, are becoming increasingly popular and reshaping the way consumers transact. We also recommend surveying customers to help prioritize.

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Secure Payment Forms: 6 Ways to Secure Customer Information During Checkout

FastSpring

We heard a wide variety of responses, such as: Using an AVS (Address Verification Service) Tokenization Stacking payment gateways Using encrypted payments. Aside from using SSL certificates and ensuring your website is PCI-DSS compliant, here are seven other ways software developers can create a more secure checkout.

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Retailers, Reach For The Minimum By 2020

RTP blog

To make matters worse for legacy retailers, along came the Warby Parkers, the Amazons, the Caspers and other previously online-only pure plays, all of which have enjoyed fairly immediate success in brick-and-mortar. Actively engage on relevant social networks and other public-facing forums. No preference-based recommendations.

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