Strategic Foresight Series: App-Free Mobile Commerce

W. Capra’s new Strategic Foresight Series focuses on how merchants can transform the digital commerce experiences they deliver to customers through emerging technologies.  In each series segment, W. Capra experts dive into an emerging area, outlining the signals of change in the market, potential strategic responses to those signals, and...

Cashiering Enters the Mobile Age

The following has been re-posted from Convenience Store Decisions. The original article can be found here.   Hand-held devices aren’t just convenient; they are the secured cash registers of the future. By Ed Collupy Looking back, I always wanted the opportunity to checkout a customer using a brass cash register,...

The Expanding Back Office

The following article has been re-posted from Convenience Store Decisions. The original posting can be found here. Cloud and mobile are among the technologies pushing the envelope of internal store systems. By Ed Collupy Recent store visits have often allowed me to spend time in the ‘back office’ and have...

Mobile Payments: Avoiding the Rapid Path to Irrelevancy

From its experience and continued education in mobile, W. Capra has identified some key foundational learnings that should be used to to think about how to increase adoption and ongoing usage of your mobile app.  Consumers, in particular those who are willing to download and try a mobile app, are...