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Could Amazon’s Just Walk Out Technology Address the Scourge of ‘Shoplifting’?
I read with some sadness last week about Target’s decision to close nine of its stores in the New York, Portland (OR), San Francisco/Oakland, and Seattle markets due to what it called not “shoplifting”, but “theft and organized retail crime”....
Payments Post #7: Glenbrook’s September Roundup – Sibos, India, and a Connected Future
This month, Payments Post is going global. We’ll jump to Canada as we explore themes from Sibos and then to India to take a look at a leader in next-generation national payment schemes. We’re joined by Cici Northup, Associate Partner in our...
Involuntary Churn: Measured and Managed
In our previous post on involuntary churn, The Payments Playbook for Challenging Churn, we explored the challenges faced by business in managing recurring billing operations. The post explored various tactics to manage and reduce involuntary...
Buy Now, Pay Later: Where Have the Months Gone?
At the beginning of the year, I hypothesized that four issues needed to be addressed for sustained Buy Now, Pay Later success. What happened this year? To what extent did we mature our BNPL market? Let's take a look at 2023 progress: Issue 1:...
Payments Post #6: Glenbrook’s August Roundup
Chris Uriarte and Justin Pituch put their heads together to sift through the August news in search of a broader storyline. Looking back at headlines surrounding merchant surcharging, fee backlash, and Adyen’s lackluster H1 performance, we noted...
Payments Post #5: Glenbrook’s June/July Roundup
Payments Post was on vacation last month; your editor was making his way from Berkeley, CA to a new home in Chicago, IL. But now that I’m settled in the Windy City, I’m happy to present this “double feature” post, covering developments in both...
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