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Retail Pulse: Luxury Brands Eye Airport Retail; Panera Bread Tests Dinner Menu

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These hubs for travel retail, which are providing an audience of on-the-go travelers as U.S. shopping malls are on the decline, are also becoming locations where brands are innovating with products. However, the company’s luxury unit is continually on the uptick — and travel retail is said to be partly responsible.

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How The Pandemic Made QR Codes Sizzle

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The first was that American mobile-wallet providers pretty much avoided it, starting with Apple eschewing QR codes in 2014 in favor of the higher-tech (and more secure) NFC technology. Jonker said the beauty of QR codes is that they offer a contactless payment that’s not completely bound to a structured retail environment. Second, U.S.

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5G, Biometrics Lead The Way At Mobile World Congress

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Indeed, new evidence recently emerged about the deployment of the latest generation of mobile technology – one that promises to bring significant changes to retail and payments thanks to bandwidth expansion and faster processing, along with new challenges and questions as early 5G case studies loom. Biometric Innovation. 5G Expansion.

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Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram

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While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. merchant customers. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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Getting Mobile Ready

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Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. Moreover, lingering doubts over the security of mobile channels also surfaced in the Fed’s research.

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