| Google enters handset biz (again), Why retail doesnât need salespeople, Amazon to open grocery drive thru. | | | | When Digital Fraud Takes The Field
All digital retailers care about fraud â buy why would a professional soccer team be on high alert? In a recent digital discussion ThreatMetrixâs CMO and CPO, along with San Jose Earthquakes' Head of Corporate Partnerships, joined Karen Webster for an in-depth look at how the long arm of digital fraud can even wreak havoc on the soccer field in San Jose. Read More... |
| For Wearable Tech, Moving Beyond the Fitness Zone
The Snapchat Specs begged one very big question: Are wearables solutions looking for a problem to solve? In the latest PYMNTS Topic TBD, Cortex MCP CEO Shaunt Sarkissian weighed in on what might put wearable technologies firmly into the firmament beyond fad into âmust haves.â
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| Let The Games Begin Edition: Samsung, Citibank & PayPal Step It Up
It was a big week for big moves. Samsung fired a shot across the wearables bow, Citibank got in on the "Zelle" party and PayPal's moving to kill the rent check through a partnership that shares their first name. You know how they say everybody wants to rule the world? Looks like some payments and commerce players are looking to make some serious moves just in time for the baseball playoffs. Read More... |
| | Retail Reinvention | | Does Retail Really Need Salespeople?
Cliff Stoll wrote that the internet would be a dud because, among other things, it could never replace the bastion of capitalism, the salesperson â six months before the launch of Amazon which obviously proved him wrong. Stollâs piece got Karen Webster to thinking about the role of salespeople in retail, the impact of the internet on the retail experience and the digital consumerâs expectations of the physical store experience. She concluded that Stoll wasnât only wrong about the internetâs future (obviously) he was wrong about the role of salespeople in furthering retailâs. Curious about what she thinks is? Read More... |
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