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whitepaper In May 2004, Thriftway Supermarkets became the first grocery retailer in the United States to install a payment system using biometrics. Thriftway Supermarkets wanted to provide top level customer service, reduce fraud in electronic payments and...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper Considered one of the world’s most innovative and forward-thinking grocery chains, Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, is the second largest grocery store chain in New England with 185 stores and sales last year reaching...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Founded in Charleston, South Carolina in 1947 as a Piggly Wiggly franchise operation, the Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company revolutionized grocery shopping in South Carolina and Georgia, bringing the company's trademark checkout stands, national...
[02 Dec 2007]
News According to Institute of Grocery Distribution research only one in 10 teenagers would be interested, while one in 20 adults would also be open to the idea. There was significantly greater interest in other biometric payment methods - such as iris...
[10 Oct 2006]
News In the US, PayPass is accepted by grocery stores, parking stations, pharmacists, retailers, theatres, petrol stations and fast food restaurants. MasterCard consultant Robert White told a smartcard conference in Sydney this week: "There's been some...
[03 Jul 2006]
whitepaper Broadway Marketplace, an upscale Cambridge, Massachusetts grocery store, wanted to offer its Harvard clientele a loyalty program that would both reward their patronage and enable Broadway to communicate with customers immediately, with measurable...
[12 May 2006]
Comment So finally the accounts people working for the supermarket were obliged to refund the payment in full, based on the company's own denial that we had placed an internet order and the complete absence of a genuine signature on a till receipt.
[31 Jan 2006]
whitepaper For example, grocery stores' frequent shopper cards, equipped with magnetic stripes, identify their customers and track the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and purchasing trends. Magnetic stripe readers, though nearing commodity status, are...
[24 Feb 2004]
News It is the first non-grocery retailer to commit to a national roll-out of the technology and IBM has been chosen by the company to install the new point-of-sale systems. DIY chain Homebase is to install new fraud-busting payment technology across...
[06 Nov 2003]
News As we'll see with Tesco.com, online grocery delivery does have a future. If Beenz - or a successor - was to ever have its day it was only because we have yet to find a common micro-payment platform. But, warns Jon Bernstein, it would be wrong to...
[21 Dec 2001]
Comment user views on web-based grocery shopping (http://www.silicon.com/a42984 ). criticised online grocery companies. After one-and-a-half hours online, (we're talking 12.45 am by this time) I was at the point of processing payment when the site claimed...
[02 Mar 2001]
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