Even smaller retailers can benefit by using apps and services like Square to accept payments and handle credit card transactions. Many other vendors and retailers are using custom apps to handle their payments systems, and it looks like big-name companies are deploying the Apple tablet en masse.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Apple iPad Replacing Cash Registers
The Apple iPad might be developing as a major new form factor for retailer point of sale terminals. Lowe’s says it is rolling out 42,000 handheld devices in the U.S. and Canada. That closely follows announcements by Home Depot, Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters. iPad as register
Even smaller retailers can benefit by using apps and services like Square to accept payments and handle credit card transactions. Many other vendors and retailers are using custom apps to handle their payments systems, and it looks like big-name companies are deploying the Apple tablet en masse.
Even smaller retailers can benefit by using apps and services like Square to accept payments and handle credit card transactions. Many other vendors and retailers are using custom apps to handle their payments systems, and it looks like big-name companies are deploying the Apple tablet en masse.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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The Apple iPad might be developing as a major new form factor for retailer point of sale terminals. Lowe’s says it is rolling out 42,000 handheld devices in the U.S. and Canada. That closely follows announcements by Home Depot, Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters.
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