POS/PAYMENTS

Rite Aid joins ‘buy now, pay later’ trend
Rite Aid Corp. is offering online shoppers a new way to make installment payments on purchases.
Coborn’s takes personalization to the conveyor belt
A Midwest grocer is targeting customers at checkout in an interesting way.

Duluth Trading Co. transforms in-store POS to unified commerce
Duluth Trading Co. is merging its omnichannel customer touchpoints in the store environment.
Fanatics improves accuracy of customer address data
Fanatics is ensuring its captures the correct shipping address during online checkout.
Elon Musk is buying Twitter – what’s next for retailers?
Meet the likely new boss of Twitter, who may prove very different than the old bosses.
Seattle baseball stadium to make frictionless shopping first
T-Mobile Park is doing something with checkout-free retailing that no other Major League Baseball ballpark has done.
First Look: Amazon Go opens new suburban format
Amazon Go has officially come to the suburbs.
Mastercard partners with Microsoft to tackle digital fraud
Mastercard is enhancing its ability to authenticate digital consumers at the moment of purchase.
New York arena features Amazon ‘Just Walk Out’
Frictionless shopping is coming to the home of the New York Islanders professional hockey franchise.
Amazon opens new cashierless grocery stores in California
Shoppers in Southern California have several new options for skipping the checkout line when they buy groceries.
Survey: Shoppers will flock back to physical stores in 2022
Nearly nine of 10 consumers say they will be buying more at brick-and-mortar this year.
Now batting at Fenway Park – contactless checkout
America’s oldest professional baseball stadium is offering customers a leading-edge method of buying concessions.
Amazon expands contactless tech to Whole Foods stores in new market
Amazon is introducing its Amazon One palm payment technology at seven additional Whole Foods stores.
Entertainment, sports venues serve up retail tech innovation
Entertainment and sports arenas increasingly feature leading-edge retail technology deployments.

News and analysis on POS equipment and payment systems relating to in-store and online payment issues.