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Walmart scan-and-go shopping ended as customers disinterested in in-store m-commerce

05/15/201805/14/2018 Jorge Gonzalez

Walmart scan-and-go - Mobile Commerce - mobile shopping

The retailer has shut down the program as shoppers failed to embrace the mobile tech based experience. The Walmart scan-and-go shopping has been abandoned by the retailer at its U.S. stores. Customers simply did not embrace the technology. It was designed to help them to save time in-store by skipping the checkout through the use of mobile commerce. The concept was supposed to let people use m-commerce tech to scan their own items and pay. Walmart scan-and-go was designed to let people use their smartphones to scan item barcodes as…

Walmart takes another whack at m-commerce

06/02/201405/31/2014 Stephanie Beck

The retail giant is now adding a number of smartphone friendly services and features. Walmart has had its ups and downs when it comes to the efforts that it has made to be successful in m-commerce, and now it is taking a few more steps in this direction in the hopes of getting it right. The biggest change is that it is hoping to entirely transition itself away from paper receipts and toward digital. Although e-receipts are nothing new and they are offered by many retailers, already, typically they are…

Walmart bases its social and mobile commerce in Bangalore

11/15/201111/15/2011 John Montgallo

The largest retailer in the world, Walmart, has announced that it will be establishing its technology hub for social and m-commerce in Bangalore, India. The Bangalore facility will be a part of its worldwide division for e-commerce and will develop technologies and business for social and m-commerce shoppers around the globe. It has also announced that it would be adding 100 new developers to its team to head and own projects and for e-commerce generation as well as m-commerce and social offerings growth for the worldwide marketplace. According to the…