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Turn the checkout moment into a loyalty engine

Turn the checkout moment into a loyalty engine

by Ramon Helwegen | May 31, 2024 | Client experience

Turn the checkout moment into a loyalty engineMost merchants treat the transaction as a finish line. The smarter framing is to treat it as the starting gun. Whether in-store or online, the moment a customer completes a purchase is one of the highest-attention moments...
Cashierless supermarkets: how far along is frictionless POS checkout?

Cashierless supermarkets: how far along is frictionless POS checkout?

by Ramon Helwegen | Apr 14, 2023 | Technology

Frictionless POS checkout in retail: innovation under pressureCashierless stores have moved from Silicon Valley showcase to genuine operational question for European supermarket chains. Amazon Go showed what full checkout elimination could look like in 2018, and since...
Frictionless checkout starts with identity, not speed

Frictionless checkout starts with identity, not speed

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 13, 2023 | Online checkout

Frictionless checkout starts with identity, not speedThe race to instant checkout is not fundamentally a technology race. It is an identity race. That is the most useful takeaway from this discussion with Discover Global Network, and it applies just as directly to...
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Independent commentary on what moves conversion at the checkout. Editorial direction by Ramon Helwegen, payments specialist and founder of EcomStream. Editorially independent. No ads. No sponsored content.

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