There’s a digital platform for that. Some platforms are serving as matchmakers between travelers needing to store luggage and shops with space to spare, while earning some rent on the side. Take LuggageHero, which is connecting consumers with shops where they can store their luggage while waiting to check in or out of their own accommodations. Jannik Lawaetz, the company’s founder and CEO, unpacks the business model, as it eyes expansion into 36 cities.  Read More...

From SeatGeek to Amazon, retail innovators and tech companies are enabling contextual commerce to reach consumers in the moment of discovery. Nearly 60 percent of consumers today have engaged in contextual commerce experiences, according to the latest PYMNTS Digital Consumer Report, and most want to keep tapping into the speed these experiences provide. These are some of the ways forward-thinking companies are crafting experiences for connected consumers. Read More...

Smartphones as wallets, and commerce on the go — literally. Merchants may never see the face (or anything else) on the other end of the transaction. This is why behavioral clues can be telling, if picked up by the right combination of human intelligence and, well, machine intelligence, as Sift’s Trust and Safety Architect Kevin Lee tells PYMNTS. Read More...