Amazon to add more Whole Foods locations, Visa on why consumers control the POS, Bitcoin’s 2018 crash, bit by bit

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December 31, 2018

POS Innovation

Visa: Why Consumers Are In Control At The POS

The physical point of sale is evolving from a line at a register to an app and payment made before the consumer walks into the store. Visa’s SVP and Global Head of Digital Merchant Products Carleigh Jaques tells PYMNTS why, before merchants think about transforming their POS experiences, they first need to understand how consumers want to be “checked out.”

 

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2018 Data Breaches

2018 Data Breaches: The List No One Wanted To Make

More than 2,200 and counting: That’s how many data breaches were reported so far in 2018, a fact made more stunning since more than two-thirds of them took months to discover. Here are the best of the worst on a list that no company would aspire to make.

 

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Self-Checkout

Self-Checkout Gets An Innovation Makeover

Old view: Self-checkout is a rip-and-replace tech move by retailers. Essential view: Self-checkout is a critical touchpoint in the end-to-end customer journey. Matt Redwood, Diebold Nixdorf’s head of self-service, explains why — and how the best retailers are using self-service to innovate the customer experience in the store.

 

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Cryptocurrency

The 2018 Bitcoin Crash, Bit By Bit

Bubble, meet pinprick, in the form of reality. Bitcoin’s precipitous fall in 2018 from roughly $20,000 to about $3,800 may have been a long time coming, with its fundamental promises unfulfilled. Here’s our take on why what went up so dizzyingly had to come down the same way.

 

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