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Commerce Weekly: Reimagining the stages of retail
Remembering the basics in retail, desperate attempts to battle showrooming, and thrifty retail endeavors.
The basics remain key in our radically changing retail environment
This week, PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy addressed the issue of whether or not brick-and-mortar retail is dead and argued that it’s more “dying as we know it” than dead-dead. Lacy pointed to several ecommerce 2.0 startups — online…
Commerce Weekly: Visa pursues NFC mobile payments
Visa looks to make allies with new program; PayPal Here heads to Europe; and showrooming, Google disrupt retail.
Visa looks to kick-start NFC
Visa is taking aim at the NFC mobile payment holy grail. On Friday, the company announced the Visa Ready Partner Program. Leena Rao reports at TechCrunch that the initiative “aims to help mobile device manufacturers, technology partners, mobile network operators, and others gain access to Visa IP, licenses and more,” and that Visa…
Commerce Weekly: You can now buy stuff with tweets
AmEx now lets you buy with hashtags, 3D printing threats to retail, and PayPal comes to the gas pump.
American Express turns Twitter into an ecommerce platform
American Express announced an enhancement this week to its Sync with Twitter feature — users can now buy things with a tweet. Tricia Duryee reports at All Things Digital that all users will need to register to participate, even previous users of the sync feature, in order to provide…
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