A digital wallet, Scan as you Shop Mobile, Clubcard check-in and Clubcard voucher prompting, are all to be a part of Tesco’s ‘futuristic multichannel journey’ for 2014. The services will complement the retailer’s growing digital portfolio that already includes a magazine app, one-touch add-to-basket function and Click & Collect. Robin Terrell, group multichannel director, told…
Contactless transactions have more than doubled in growth and are set to continue to rise as adoption of the technology increases. Payment provider WorldPay has reported annual growth of over 226% and said that contactless payments trebled between 2012 and 2013. In the UK, the provider processed 43.6 million contactless payments in December 2013, up…
Welcome Break, UK motorway service operator, has increased its service levels with a bespoke unified payment service. Retail communications provider Vodat International has worked with Welcome Break to integrate the technology into the company’s electronic point of sale (EPoS) system and rolled it out across all of its twenty-nine sites. Unified Payments provides UK retailers…
Debanhams has seen a £25m store revamp including new digital media. Marking the department store’s 200th birthday, its flagship Oxford Street store now contains engaging visual displays that are helping to transform the customer’ shopping experience. The new technology includes two nine screen video walls positioned at the main entrances from Vere Street and Marylebone…
Virtual reality (VR), a computer-simulated 3-D environment viewed through a computer screen or wireless glasses, or augmented reality (AR), which uses technology to alter the physical environment by adding sound, images or words to enhance the real-world experience, is on the retail agenda. Currently the technology has more of an ‘event’ style presence as managers…