Bolt CEO Says Shopper Identity Will Redefine Retail

by PYMNTS | May 21, 2024 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

It was former GE chairman and management guru Jack Welch who once said: “You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.” The FinTech category over the past year...

Automatic age verification comes to self-checkout

by Jessica Loder | May 7, 2024 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A 24/7 store at the Stuttgart Airport in Germany is piloting Diebold Nixdorf’s Vynamic Smart Vision age verification solution to allow for the purchase of...

Whole Foods to pull Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology from stores

by Peyton Bigora | Apr 8, 2024 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Whole Foods Market plans to remove Amazon’s Just Walk Out checkout system from the only two stores that offer the technology, a spokesperson confirmed via...

Amazon Fresh to Replace ‘Just Walk Out’ With Smart Carts

by PYMNTS | Apr 2, 2024 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

As it redesigns its Amazon Fresh stores, Amazon is removing its Just Walk Out technology. That technology will be replaced by the company’s smart shopping cart, the Amazon Dash Cart, Jessica Martin, Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement emailed to PYMNTS Tuesday...

How Embedded Payments Help Businesses Own ‘Micro Moments’

by PYMNTS | Mar 29, 2024 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

In life, and in commerce, it is often the little things that matter most. And as digitization changes the world, those little things are getting both smaller and more important — particularly when it comes to payments. This, as leveraging embedded finance is emerging...

Bolt and Checkout.com Team for Frictionless Commerce

by PYMNTS | Mar 19, 2024 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

Checkout technology company Bolt has launched a partnership with payments solutions provider Checkout.com. The collaboration makes Bolt Checkout.com’s “exclusive one-click checkout provider” with Checkout.com becoming “Bolt’s preferred payment partner,” the companies...