And so we come to our last post (and newsletter !) of 2015, with 2016 just a couple of days away (or perhaps a couple hours…
Year: 2015
Are Your Customers About to Get Scrooged? Without the Most Secure Payment Processing, They May Be
Is your business feeling the holiday pressure yet? As much as we all look forward to this joyful time of year, we also face the stress that comes with it.
East vs. West: Where Did Christmas in the U.S. Start? (And Where Is It Headed?)
As with sports and hip-hop rivalries, we enter the holiday week with a good-natured “throwdown” on which coast, and its culture, gets more of the credit for creating Christmas in the U.S.
Holiday Snapshot: Shopping Goes Cyber, EMVs Go Slower, Customers Keep Going
As we hit the midpoint between the Black-and-Cyber shopping weekend, and the big event of Christmas itself, with Hanukkah now behind us and New Year’s (and the post-holiday sales!) still ahead…
Is Your Business Ready for a Busy Holiday Season?—Why Mobile Processing Can Help You Serve Customers
The holiday shopping season is officially in full swing. Early bird shoppers have clamored to check gifts off their lists while others still bide their time…
If Even Buskers Take Cards — Shouldn’t You?
A sweet holiday-themed news item comes our way from overseas, and not only is it too good not to share, but it may be a harbinger of things to come: Cards, and contactless and e-payments will increasingly be taken in places where no one ever expected…
More pie, more metrics, a little EMV, and other tasty holiday insights
It’s not just “Thanksgiving” that comes at the end of November for most Americans now, but also “Black Friday.” The latter is almost as much an alternate organizing metaphor for the long weekend’s…
How “Black Friday” Almost Came Early — and other Thanksgiving/”Franksgiving” Tales
Happy short week! It’s become something of a tradition here on the AVPS end of things to get our blog post and newsletter out early during Thanksgiving…
Black and Cyber All Over: Holiday Shopping Is Here
Total U.S. holiday spending is expected to increase under 4% from 2014’s results, according to the National Retail Federation, but per Forrester (research group) online spending is expected to jump 11% over last year… (exceeding) $95 billion this year.”
