Smart shopping and the payment revolution at CARTES 2013

October 29, 2013 Read time: 2 mins

Changes to the retail world over the next ten years could be even more important than those during the internet revolution of the 2000s – so how will payments and cards fare in this new environment?

Answers will be found at one of the big attractions at CARTES 2013 – the Smart Shopping area. This zone, designed in partnership with independent consultant ADN’co, brings together the most significant innovations in the payment and retail industries, displayed as customer journeys renewed by new technologies. Visitors will be able to see for themselves shopping walls for a new remote business, multi-services wallets, dematerialization, self-checkout in stores, the use of biometrics and much more… Cardlytics, Casyope, Flash’n Pay, Gemalto, Hexapay, Natural Security/CITC-RFID, Oberthur Technologies and SCCP group – experts which have been brought together for the first time - will be your guides for live demonstrations and the explanation of simple applications for complex problems.

The Smart Shopping area will run from Tuesday 19 November to Thursday 21 November in Hall 4 Stand: 4 J 124

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