Amazon VISA Surcharge News From PaymentDive August 2021 — Amazon takes on Visa by imposing a surcharge in area and leaving open the possibility of extending it elsewhere to fight what it calls “Visa’s high cost of payments.” In Brief: Singapore Amazon customers are the first to see 0.5% surcharge on VISA payment use From Amazon — To… Read More »
Evolis Announces News Complete Range of Card Printers ID Card Printers Editors Note: Driver support — there are drivers for Windows, Mac OS, Linux. The spec sheets for each of the new printers and the brochure for the entire range are available as compressed pdf zip (evolis-brochures-compressed). A complete range of card printers for all your projects. Kiosk… Read More »
Aldi Rolling Out Self-Checkout at Grocery Pictures and Images on Google Discount grocer Aldi is rolling out a limited trial of self-serve checkouts in its stores in a bid to increase convenience for shoppers. Famous for the speed of its operator-manned checkouts, the self-serve checkout trial will be rolled out in ten NSW stores with each store to… Read More »
Historical Retail News Compendium We were doing some housecleaning from 2014 and for historical purposes here is Retail Systems news from 2014. Includes: Bitcoin writeup from 2013 — imagine buying then… Here they are InComm’s Corporate B2B Store Enables Retailers to Streamline Management of Corporate Gift Card Sales – Retail Automate PORTLAND, Ore. (Mar. 27, 2014) – InComm,… Read More »
Where we saw it… H-E-B is partnering with Texas A&M University to provide grocery delivery to people who live on its main and West campuses in College Station, Texas, according to an article posted Wednesday on the university’s website. Under the Campus+ program, customers at the university can receive grocery orders at eight dedicated delivery zones for a $5 fee.… Read More »
Blog post by Ingenico March 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed travel and hospitality forever. 2020 saw many hotels and flights go empty for long periods. But with additional precautionary measures, CDC guidelines and the start of the vaccine rollout in the US, things are starting to look up. Most importantly, consumer confidence is making a comeback. According… Read More »
Payment Trends and Insights Writeup by Appetize on the five payment trends to look for in 2021 There’s a silver lining to the unpredictability we experienced last year: 2020 accelerated the growth and advancement of the current payments landscape. In fact, the way operators set up their payment systems now will truly be a testament to how they… Read More »
Hospitality Tech Reports UV Light Robot by LG – Dec2020 Excerpt: To be officially unveiled at Digital CES® 2021, LG’s new robot is expected to enable a new standard of hygiene by helping to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas. Because of its autonomous design, the robot will be able to move easily around tables, chairs and other furniture, generally irradiating… Read More »
Intel Touchless 2020 Whitepaper – Opinion We saw this new whitepaper by Intel on touch screen monitors and going touchless and hoped that it would be an instructive article. Unfortunately it almost appears to be a couple of years old when it comes to technology. Seems to be intended more as a marketing promotion for a couple of… Read More »
Article from Nation’s Restaurant News Sep2020 – Despite fewer workers and less hours, labor costs are rising Overview “I do think wages will be going up whether it’s federally mandated or not. We are going to have to up the wages we pay to attract a better-quality person,” said Frank Tucker, a restaurant consultant and former global chief… Read More »
