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Paytronix Study Shows Drop In Holiday Gift Card Sales For Restaurants

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Customer experience management platform provider Paytronix released its holiday gift card report on Tuesday (Jan. 12) and found a mixed bag for restaurant sales of gift cards. Its research found that overall card sales ended the year down 31.8 percent rise in average spend per gift card during 2020.

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Touchless Is Pushing Payments Beyond The Card

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In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. Physical cards are changing form, as some NFC-capable mini-cards are being embedded in rings and other wearables. Now comes the work of embedding touchless payments anywhere and everywhere people might want them. told PYMNTS.

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Inside The Retail Gift Card Fail

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In retailing, as a Nobel laureate once wrote (and sort of sang!), “the times they are a-changin” — a sentiment that extends handily to gift cards. No longer confined to being silly (or maybe saccharine) cards tucked into envelopes, gifting can be a quick and painless digital pursuit. Unless retailers make it hard.

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Getting Started On Embedded Finance

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Put simply, embedded finance is the placing of a financial product in a nonfinancial customer experience, journey, or platform. . I remember when my mother stopped shopping at one department store because they wouldn’t give her a charge card in her own name, but another store would on their private-label charge card.

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How A Retail Incubator Could Produce The Next Big Innovation

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One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). LISNR Case Study. The basic idea behind LISNR is to send data securely via audio.

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Omnichannel Moves Beyond Retail

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That’s when there is generally another point of frustration and friction: checking out after the dental work, perhaps giving over a payment card and signing up for another appointment. In fact, the vast majority of the growth NMI is seeing is happening almost entirely outside of retail. She was able to simply go home. “It

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Visa's Cybersource: The Frictionless Fix Is In For Physical Retail’s Broken Business Model

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Consumers are going digital and are finding the experience to be an upgrade, while the physical retail channel is becoming increasingly unsatisfying by a pretty wide margin. Herron said that means retail needs to catch up and start rethinking a model that is “definitely broken right now” when it comes to shopping in a physical store.

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