Mobile payment isn’t being adopted as quickly as originally anticipated

Mobile Payments

Though many major international companies such as Google, banks, payment processors, and retailers such as Toys R Us and Gap, are working together to offer customers the ability to use their mobile devices to pay for their purchases, a recent KPMG study is showing that it will still be another few years before the payment method truly goes mainstream. In fact, the study’s results indicate that only 23 percent of consumers are currently willing to use their smartphones to complete a payment transaction instead of cash, credit, or debit. Within…

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Google Wallet finding a place in pilot programs

Jack in the Box Mobile Payments

Google Wallet has seen a slow start so far, but it is starting to catch on with some big name businesses in their pilot programs to test the value of its use. Jack in the Box has announced that it will be trying the mobile payment service in 35 of its restaurant locations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. This makes the restaurant chain one of the first quick service restaurants (QSR) to give Google Wallet an active pilot trial. Subway was the first to make this step and is…

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