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holiday-shopping
It’s a short holiday week, and we wanted to get the blogging in before it was time to address the
holiday-season
An analysis from the First Data Corporation shows a discernible uptick in consumer spending in the period heading right into
pos-devices
We were struck by a CNBC article appearing this week, with the provocative headline, “Cash-only Business Owners Risk $100 Billion
ach-payment-processing
ACH, or “Automated Clearing House,” has been in the financial news of late, particularly in a couple of MarketWatch articles
customer-payment-preference
Georgia-based Total Systems Services Inc., or TSYS, is out with their 2013 Consumer Payment Choice Study. And while the main
merchants-cash-advances
Being the faithful AVPS Blog reader that you are, you’ve seen where there will be a large surge of holiday
holiday-budget-shopping
Like the Boy  Scouts, we believe in being prepared. Especially now that the U.S. is once again funding its government
mobile-shopping
Some interesting stats and trend-lines are emerging from a recently discussed Forrester Research study on  Smartphone-based sales in the coming
Move from Cash to Debit
That may be the most germane quote — the “takeaway” if you will — from an interview that  Nitin Sumangali