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Mastercard’s Kirkpatrick: Transit Is The Ticket To Everyday Spend

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Loading funds onto a prepaid card that opens the turnstile once scanned, swiped or inserted works terrifically well – until the customer forgets to check the balance on his transit pass, and finds himself locked out at the turnstile. What better to get top-of-wallet relevance than embedding a contactless chip in your card?”

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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Brookings reports that the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up.

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