Payment: a lever for retail innovation

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This month, our editorial team highlights how innovation is taking shape around payment. This key stage, enabling turnover to be collected by retailers, is at the heart of numerous pilots and POCs: roll-out of mobile checkout in the aisles, rise of wallets and BNPL options, expansion of Wero…
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