7-Eleven rolls out mobile checkout option in New York

Mobile Checkout Feature - 7-Eleven Store

Manhattan residents and visitors can now checkout even faster at the 7-Eleven. 7-Eleven, the Texas-based largest chain in the convenience-retailing industry, has announced Mobile Checkout, available at its convenience stores in Manhattan, New York City. This newly introduced mobile payments option lets customers skip the checkout line and pay for their purchases via the 7-Eleven app. The mobile shopping experience has been integrated into the 7Rewards loyalty program. The new Mobile Checkout service has been integrated directly into the 7Rewards loyalty program, which is part of the 7-Eleven app. In…

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Walmart Pay now available in Texas and Arkansas stores

Walmart Pay app QR codes self checkout

The largest retailer in the world is expanding its mobile payments system into more states and locations. The biggest retailer on the planet has already launched its Walmart Pay mobile payments system but now the company is starting to roll it out in an increasingly large number of different locations, the latest of which have included the stores in Arkansas and Texas. With every new store location, the retailer makes itself larger mobile wallet competition for other large players. The goal of Walmart Pay currently appears to be to compete…

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M-commerce is getting easier through new Stripe tools

M-Commerce A Shaky Start

The design of these new features is meant to make smartphone based shopping much simpler. While shopping online isn’t anything new, the popularity of smartphones has been changing the game, as m-commerce makes it possible to shop whenever and wherever the consumer might be at the time. However, at the same time, actual purchases made over smartphones aren’t climbing as fast as the rate of shopping. Many consumers use m-commerce to shop for items by comparing prices, looking at products, reading reviews and checking store inventories. However, when it comes…

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Sainsbury’s to launch m-commerce app

m-commerce app Sainsbury QR code mobile check out

The company has announced that it has now launched a scan-and-go smartphone based shopping application. Sainsbury has now announced that it is going to be launching a shop-and-go m-commerce app that has been designed to make it possible for customers to be able to complete their entire order by way of their smartphones. At the moment, the mobile app is still in its development stage, but it will soon be starting its first pilot program. The trial program for the m-commerce app will be getting started at the supermarket’s Wandsworth…

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Mobile payments get a boost from PayPal

Paypal mobile payments

In their overall expansion of digital transactions, they have also streamlined their e-checkout process. Last year, PayPal made mobile payments news headlines with its announcement of Beacon as it promised to help to enhance the overall location based experience for brick and mortar stores and their shoppers, and now it is making them again by expanding their efforts for online transactions as a whole. Even as the company pushes its way into offline retail, it is keeping up with mobile e commerce. This week, PayPal launched a new checkout experience…

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