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2018 Recap: The Year In Grocery Innovations

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Shoppers had new opportunities to buy groceries without having to walk through the aisles of their local supermarkets or wait in line at checkout counters this year, as grocers rolled out digital innovations in shopping and payments. Beyond cashierless checkout, experimental grocery-store-within-a-store concepts took hold this year.

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KFC Partners With Ingenico Group For Payment Solution

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To simplify its path to EMV card acceptance, and to reduce PCI compliance scope, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has migrated its payments system in the U.S. to Ingenico Group ’s Telium Semi-Integrated solution. Ingenico Group has helped KFC U.S.

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LatAm’s RobinFood Says It’s A Tech Company That Sells Food … And It’s Working

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The average income level of the people here doesn't allow them to go to the Kentucky Fried Chickens and the McDonald's on a daily basis. What we're seeing is a shift toward more credit cards and debit cards, but also an explosion of the FinTech companies,” he said. They just can't afford it,” he said.

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Why Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Are Tapping Into Unattended Retail

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New digital innovations, however, provide the promise of offering valuable customer data to merchants. These are just some of the ways that merchants are using digital innovations to better serve their customers with the help of kiosk and unattended retail technology: . Nuro Co-founder Dave Ferguson said in an announcement.

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Samsung Pay Launches In China

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Samsung Pay will enable any China UnionPay cards to be uploaded and managed on the app. Samsung Pay currently supports select credit and debit cards from nine banks, including China CITIC Bank, China Construction Bank, China Everbright Bank, China Guangfa Bank, China Minsheng Banking Corp. Young, SVP, Global Product and Innovation.

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June’s Top 12 Mobile Pay Moments

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While Apple Pay also recently launched in Singapore, Samsung Pay joins the region with its signature niche: the MST tech that makes Samsung Pay usable at virtually anywhere merchant credit cards are accepted. “Innovation and convenience are driving usage of alternative products and services like online and mobile payments.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Costco Card. The fizzle wears on.

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