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01-Feb-18 "New retail" is Alibaba's latest buzzword. It refers to combining online and physical retail into a seamless, data-driven consumer experience, and is starting to give rise to new businesses such as cashierless convenience stores and automated pickup centers. [image: AP / Nikkei Asian Review]
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15-Jan-18 The use of electronic payments combined with delivery has helped McDonald’s develop a unique growth strategy in China that could serve as a role model for its home market in the United States, say corporate investors in the company. [image: AP / SCMP]
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15-Jan-18 To further enable merchants to accept payments from anywhere as seamlessly as possible, Verifone launched its e280 mobile-point-of-sale (mPOS) solution in the US, allowing store-owners to accept payments anywhere in the store or enable self-checkout kiosks. [image: PYMNTS.com]
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12-Jan-18 Line, the company behind a messaging application of the same name, is stepping up promotion of its Line Pay mobile platform to vendors across Japan, seeking to make it available at 1 million locations by 2020. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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05-Jan-18 Store owners in Japan may soon be able to accept payments using JCB's new palm scanning payment app. Advances in 'empty-hand payments', requiring neither phone nor wallet, could push Japan forward in the move away from cash. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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