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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Never mind the people who start rummaging around in their purse or wallet to pull out their cards after stepping up to the checkout counter. The ability for merchants to surcharge in the U.S. is nothing new.

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Four Big Power Shifts For Commerce And Payments

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Online retailers will be where we shop. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online. We’ve been watching online sales now grow — even double — year over year, for many years now, but it’s still tiny, overall. Take books, for example. For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same old.

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RSA Report: Digital Security Is An Untapped Opportunity To Rise Above Competitors

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Is your information secure online? Every year, the company does a consumer confidence survey (this year conducted by Harris Poll and Nielsen) and publishes the results in an e-book. Hackers can even steal loyalty points from airlines and hotel chains and cash them out for gift cards. Are you sure?

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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Physical Footprints, Grocery Gains

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As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. That changed on the 11th day of the month that year, when the first internet purchase in history was made by a Philadelphia resident with a Visa card. It was a Sting CD.

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The Chatbots Are Coming! The Chatbots Are Coming!

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Trying to book a trip on Hipmunk seems primitive to the point of being useless. I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities. Working in conjunction with artificial intelligence firm IV.AI

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Taking a page out of the copy book of the London Tube, where contactless payments have skyrocketed, the Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works has signed a $33 million contract with Cubic Transportation Systems to install contactless and mobile payments. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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