| Will Amazon Go Be a Death Knell to Grocers? Plus, Congress Outlaws Bot-Based Ticket Scalpers; Samsung Issuing Kill Switch On Galaxy Note 7.  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | Will Amazon Eat Grocery Stores For Lunch? | | | | When we all got a peek at Amazon Go last week, the buzz was all about innovating the checkout experience. That, Karen Webster writes this week, is like saying that the iPhone was all about innovating the telephone call. Amazon Go, Webster posits, is Amazon’s sneak peek into how it plans to reinvent grocery by reinventing how consumers shop for food — and where they do it. And, she says, a sneak peek into what’s to come for all of retail, if Amazon’s foray into grocery succeeds. | | | | |
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| | | | | | |  | | | | | | Why Omnicommerce Needs A triPOS | | | | Tripods allow photographers to take a perfect shot every time. Coy Christensen, VP of product management for Vantiv, told PYMNTS that its triPOS solution does the same for merchants looking to expedite payments across multiple shopping channels. Christensen explains how triPOS makes omnicommerce really work. Read More... | | |
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| | | |  | | | | | | Making the 'Swych' To Perfect eGifts | | | | eGift cards are the closest thing to the perfect digital gift — sometimes. In the latest PYMNTS Topic TBD, Deepak Jain, CEO of Swych, discussed how technology and mobile is innovating the delivery of gift cards that “switch” into the perfect gift — even if they didn’t start out that way. Read More... | | |
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| | | | |  | | | | | | PoliTEAcal Teas, Steeping In Satire | | | | Still steeping in the U.S. election? Either way, one tea company has gotten political with an exclusive, limited edition line of teas made for both main candidates — Donald TEArump and Hillary ClinTEAon — with special flavors and 11 references in the marketing cartoons. The Tea Book's poliTEAcal teas are this week's Weird Commerce company. Read More... | | |
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