A late Thanksgiving is bound to make the 2019 holiday shopping season interesting. The last time the span from Black Friday to Christmas was this short was 2013, when retailers opened stores on Thanksgiving for the first time, extended Black Friday deals online, and kept their doors open for 24...
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Modern Grocery Trends Require Modern Technology
Businesses in all verticals and niches are adapting to technology disruption, new industry trends, and changing consumer preferences. Businesses in the grocery industry, however, are evolving into models that few anticipated a decade or two ago. Some have dine-in cafes. Others have added craft beer or wine shops. Some formats...
How to Help Physicians Collect Healthcare Payments from Patients
Healthcare providers are facing monumental challenges. Healthcare organizations must address mounting regulatory requirements, finding ways to efficiently address data management, training, audits, and how they will respond if a data breaches or noncompliance issue occurs. They’re also dealing with technology disruption, which requires them to keep up with the latest...
How Gen Z Consumer Trends Are Impacting Payments
Generation Z, people born from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, is emerging as the next consumer force. The oldest of the 68 million Americans who are part of Gen Z are now completing their education, entering the workforce, and building wealth. Gen Z’s estimated spending power in the U.S. is...
How grocers are competing with e-commerce retailers
Brick-and-mortar retailers and e-commerce companies are in the midst of a game of one-upmanship, a battle that features each side vying for a larger slice of the customer-loyalty pie.
Growth Opportunity in Omnichannel for Retailers
Omnichannel marketing is a strategy retailers, to varying degrees of success, are using to improve the customer buying experience.
How Payment Integration Helps You Keep Pace With These 4 Dining Trends
Mobile wallets, pay-at-the-table options and demand for transparency in consumer dining are prompting restaurants to turn toward payment integration technology.
Datacap adds support for the VX 820 with Tap and Pay for Global Canada
Datacap Systems has completed US EMV level 3 certification with Global Payments Canada. The Verifone VX 820 is the successor to previous certifications for Global Canada that supported the Verifone VX 810.
Will POS developers need to prepare for smartphone integration?
What if customers could use their smartphones to connect directly to merchant POS systems to pay for goods and meals? How would you set this up?
Should merchants integrate mobile payments into their operations?
By 2020, 150 million U.S. consumers will regularly use mobile payments. How can merchants ensure that their systems are ready once mobile payments turns the corner?