UK’s leading tile retailer Topps Tiles will now offer instant bank transfers both online and in-store as it focuses on “future-proofing its payment infrastructure”. Shoppers will be able to pay for their purchase using an account-to-account payment. By selecting the instant bank tr...

Supermarket chain Asda is bringing back its First Scan Bonus initiative this month for first-time users of its Asda Rewards loyalty programme. The decision follows the success of the scheme in February, the company said, when over £2 million was earned by customers. The latest initiative began on We...

Amazon is to add pay terminals to its checkout-free Amazon Fresh store in Angel, London.  The store will close on 12 April when the retail giant will retrofit it to give customers the option to pay via debit and credit card. It will reopen the next day. The refurbishment follows Amazon’s decis...

Online retailer The Very Group has extended its embedded marketplace partnership with Freedom Finance for a further three years, adding "greater panel breadth" to the service.

Poor online checkout experiences are causing consumers to ditch online purchases, with UK businesses potentially losing up to £656 million in missed revenue, according to new research from open banking platform Yapily.

Digital receipts are becoming ever more prevalent throughout the UK, with a quarter of UK retailers now exclusively offering them over paper receipts, according to a report from eyosretail.

Marks & Spencer has implemented self-service checkouts for home and clothing products in dozens of stores. The high street retailer said it was adding the checkouts, which are similar to those used in the supermarkets for groceries, in 10 more stores before the end of March as it speeds up the r...

River Island has announced a tie up with Mercaux for the retail tech firm to deliver RFID self-checkout terminals into its stores. Shoppers will be encouraged to use self-service devices to speed up the last step in their path to purchase. Once the item has been dropped into the ‘RFID Bucket,&...

A disabled customer has taken to Twitter to voice her frustrations over the inaccessibility of M&S' self-checkout tills at a store in Ipswich.

Co-op and PayPal have partnered up to give shoppers extended choice when it comes to paying at checkout.