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Ahold Delhaize pilots unmanned store in the US

By Sarah Clark • 27 November 2019 • nfcw.com
Entrance to Ahold Delhaize lunchbox cashierless concept store

Netherlands-based supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize has opened Lunchbox, a low-cost cashierless store that lets consumers “shop a small format store in seconds by scanning in, shopping and walking out”... More


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7-Eleven pilots mobile self-checkout in 14 US stores

By Sarah Clark • 6 November 2018 • Updated 16 August 2019 • nfcw.com
7-Eleven Scan & Pay in action

Convenience store giant 7-Eleven is piloting a mobile self-checkout service in 14 stores in the Dallas area, just two months after it began accepting contactless and mobile payments across its 8,000+ US stores... More


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Biometric payment card forecast predicts 579m cards in circulation by 2023

By Sarah Clark • 29 October 2018 • nfcw.com
Goode Intelligence

Biometric cards’ ability to enable frictionless customer authentication for higher value contactless transactions will lead to the technology gaining widespread adoption by 2023, Goode Intelligence predicts, with a total of almost 579m biometric payment cards in use around the world in five years’ time... More


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Contactless payments overtake chip and pin in the UK

By Sarah Clark • 16 October 2018 • nfcw.com
A contactless payment using a Worldpay terminal

Contactless payments usage has grown 30% in the UK over the past year to become the most popular card payment type for in-store transactions, Worldpay reports — and the growth is partly driven by an “astonishing” rise in consumer adoption of mobile payment services... More


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