This one caught our eye today. Released in 2014 for micromarkets, it is one of the smallest units complete with bill acceptor we have seen. Receipt printer in the “side panel” as well. Biometrics…
Source: kioskindustry.org
Cash acceptor, printer + biometrics. Nice integration of bar code scanner. Small countertop and touchscreen is portrait. Nice unit and video.
social kiosk for photo Source: youtu.be
Investments in EHR systems are undoubtedly costly, but some implementations appear to carry more costs than others. Source: www.beckershospitalreview.com
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Transaction laundering, not to be confused with money laundering, is a pretty big will that has found some Source: www.pymnts.com Good read on how proliferation of payment methods coupled with push to emv will radicalize this type of fraud
Online retailers up until very recently have had a significant leg-up data-wise, simply because a customer’s very presence on their page offered up an intensely educational experience for retailers.
What do consumers look at?
Source: www.pymnts.com
“Some stores see sales most closely correlated with engagement rates — the percentage of people in the store show stays longer than 20 minutes. For other stores, the driving sales factor is conversion rate — the number of people who walk by who end up walking into the store. It really is all over the map — and often will change even within the same store.”
Today, over 500 retailers work with Euclid — and Franson reports their size varies from ultra-tiny SMBs to large retailers with hundreds of locations. The world his firm operates in today is very different from the one it launched in a mere five years ago.
Retailers got hurt from two directions last year: When they weren’t getting straight-up robbed, they were being defrauded from within. And it all contributed to industry losses totaling $44 billion for the year.
Source: www.pymnts.com
Employee/internal theft contributed to 34.5 percent of shrink, followed by administrative and paperwork errors at 16.5 percent, then vendor fraud or error at 6.8 percent. Bringing up the rear in the categories contributing to retail shrink in 2104 was unknown loss at 6.1 percent.
EXCLUSIVE:
Getting any engagement from social media is a tough game, with only 1 percent of messages having any kind of real impact.
Source: venturebeat.com
The onslaught soon to begin with posts coming at 4X and 6X the time.
Today Twitter is announcing an expansion of its advertising insights platform to help it level up with its biggest competitors ahead of its big push to onboard more users.
Source: venturebeat.com
If you’re not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you’re likely losing them to someone else.
Source: venturebeat.com
Scanners may be connected to and controlled from the USB port of the Poynt payment terminal. Developers can integrate with the Poynt terminal using a licensed driver and free SDK from SDG Systems. For un-tethered convenience, support for Bluetooth-connected Code Scanners, like the CR2300, is planned. The driver is expected to support full bi-directional communication. Source: www.consumerelectronicsnet.com
