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Deep Dive: Why Retailers Are Merging Online, In-Store Shopping For The Omnichannel Age

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Consumers have shopped online, via mobile devices and at brick-and-mortar stores in various capacities for years, but the pandemic is dramatically expanding the connections between these channels. Consumers’ expectations regarding merchant interaction and support have also shifted to mirror their pandemic-driven payment preferences.

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Online Retailers Face New Threats From Hackers

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Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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Why The Customer Experience Is A Program, Not A Project

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The pandemic has reshaped how we interact with merchants — and what we expect, as customers, from those increasingly digital interactions. Call it the transformation of CX, shorthand for the customer experience. I see us rapidly adopting more contactless payments or card-on-file interactions within an app.”.

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How The B2B Mid-Market Drives Loyalty Through Online Payments

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Corporate buyers are quickly shifting their purchasing habits online, and seeking more efficient experiences from product sourcing through to checkout. With B2B eCommerce proliferating, the market is rapidly evolving to make way for new business and payment models in response to customer demand. Emerging Business Models.

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Stripe Powers Digital, In-Store Payments For Lightspeed Retail, Restaurant Customers

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Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce firm Lightspeed is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. That translates into shorter queues and a preferable experience for end customers. .

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Beyond Unattended Retail, There’s Unattended Payments

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If there’s one word that defines it all (what consumers and merchants want, and are pursuing in a world where omnichannel is a Holy Grail across brick-and-mortar and online activity), it would be “frictionless.”. Use cases span the gas pump, the retailer’s aisle, the kiosk and, of course, online.

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FIs Hiring Customer Experience Teams, But What Are They?

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Demand for a combination of speed, simplicity, security and convenience in banking services has financial institutions thinking more about customer experience, particularly in a digital sense, and hiring people to design that experience.