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Easter Commerce Hops All Over The Place
 

U.S. consumers are in line to spend more than ever before surrounding the Easter holiday — $17.3 billion, according to a new report. What’s curious, however, is just how far the particular items they plan on buying have moved from the holiday itself … not unlike the case of a certain bunny.

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UK’s Lessons For US Mobile Payments Adoption
 

Consumers and retailers in the U.S. must not get it. Clearly, those in the U.K., Australia and Canada do. So is the U.S. just a market of total Luddites? MPD CEO Karen Webster takes the latest Apple Pay adoption stats – which show usage way, way down – and dives into why contactless payments are such a consumer favorite in those markets. She contends that the reasons why contactless is so successful there is precisely why it will continue to slog along in the U.S. And why getting U.K., Australian and Canadian consumers to move from contactless cards to mobile wallets might not be a slam dunk either.

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