US Retail Sales Jump In June (But It Could Be the Last Increase for Some Time) Retail sales were up in May and June as economies reopened. A better-than-expected 7.5% jump in June, following a record-breaking 18.2% increase in sales in May, surpassed economists’ predictions. The rebound occurred after businesses reopened and pent-up demand for retail goods and services came...

New Clean Way to Pay: Mobile Wallets Surge on Covid 19 Fears Requiring no physical contact with merchant point-of-sale terminals, mobile wallets are increasingly viewed as a safer way to pay by consumers around the world. Fears that payment cards, cash and coins may be tainted with the coronavirus, and that touching in-store terminals might make shoppers sick, the use...

HOW DOES YOUR COMPANY FIT INTO THE CARD-LINKING OR ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE COMMERCE ECOSYSTEMS? ContextLink offers a new category of Personalized AI and Data Platforms that allows customizable content to your loyalty program – providing both insight and engagement into a much more highly-complex consumer. We do this through our proprietary platform that micro-segments customer data to find the known and unknown...