Have you thought of your in-store mobile strategy as different from your out-of-store mobile strategy? When it comes to retail and commerce, both are required. Why? Chuck answers that as he highlights the results from a new study by Retale on the behaviou

SK Planet (the company that acquired Shopkick for $200M recently) is set to roll out 10,000 beacons to local businesses in South Korea giving this beacon craze another foothold in another country. Chuck explains how this is going to work including a prett

Are mobile payments a thing looking for a market or do they signal a real and necessary shift in our paying habits? This question has been haunting the industry since the earliest days of this incredibly young industry. It seems there hasn't been a really

In an unprecedented move, HBC is deploying beacons into every single Lord & Taylor and Hudson's Bay Company store in the US and Canada by the end of November. The reason? It worked so well in their trial rollout. How well? Watch the episode to find out as

Beacons are not just for big department stores any more. We've mentioned Perka, the First Data division that is sending out beacons to their smaller merchants before. Now mobile payments company LevelUp is sending beacons to their customers as well. The h

Deloitte released their annual holiday survey and in it there are amazing mobile commerce nuggets - including the top things that mobile consumers will be doing while using their phones in the shopping process. Chuck gives us a run down of the most import

ApplePay may have brought more focus on the mobile payments industry (and, perhaps, scared a few companies at the same time), but it isn't new. In fact, the rest of the world has been using mobile payments for much longer than those of us on this side of

There is no way to hide from beacons these days - they are everywhere. Emerging from the early days of the beaconing, Chuck has made it easy to categorize the two broad types of companies that we are seeing today. Are you ready for Beacon Majors and Beaco

A recent study by American Express shocked both Chuck and I when it comes to how consumers will be using mobile during the coming shopping season. 2 minutes, 2 shocked hosts, 2 different reasons. Watch on.

As mobile payments makes considerable inroads to obfuscate credit cards and cash there is a deeper battle brewing out there. This one isn't just between Softcard or CurrentC or ApplePay, it is at the core. On one side you have NFC, on the other you have t