Walmart holiday mobile app on an iPhone

Why Mobile is the New Retail Hub

| Bryan Bartlett

Many shoppers start their journey on a smartphone, and finish it at the brick-and-mortar stores on which they’ve always relied. This is prompting retailers to rethink their business model with mobile as the hub.

Creating Predictability in a Chaotic Environment at ULTA Beauty

| Lori Mitchell-Keller

ULTA Beauty’s latest clienteling app is great for busy consumers that regularly buy cosmetics but don’t have time to go to a store. ULTA Beauty recognizes this by offering auto fulfillment of common items, like foundation or mascara. But they also use historical buying data to suggest other items the buyer might like based on their personal preferences.

3 Payments Trends to Watch in 2015

| Souheil Badran

The payments space is becoming increasingly crowded. To help sort through the changes taking place in the payments landscape, here are a few trends to watch for in the year ahead.

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Mobile Shift Continues in the UK

| Tim Parry

Are you selling cross-border to the UK? Then you better make sure your ecommerce site is ready for the mobile shopper. Here’s a look at how mobile commerce is growing across the pond.

Walmart holiday mobile app on an iPhone

Mobile Commerce Matters More Than Ever

| Tim Parry

If there is one major lesson merchants learned during the 2014 holiday season, it’s that mobile mattered more than ever. Mobile commerce went from being a necessary evil to an overnight game-changer. And the merchants that got on board with mobile commerce reaped the benefits of the iOS and Android-armed shoppers.

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GameStop Brings Mobile Shopping Cart to Brick and Mortar

| Tim Parry

GameStop plans to use Microsoft Azure cloud platform to continue to enhance the in-store mobile engagement of its customers in interactive, informative and entertaining ways. That includes an industry-first – a mobile shopping cart that can be transferred directly to a store POS.