By the time QE II came along the average girl on the checkout counter had them too.
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It means that I can use my PayPal account and at the checkout counter, I just use my cellphone number and a pin.
They are such a status symbol that Lids, the hat store chain, tells its workers not to remove them at the checkout counter.
W. Bush at the checkout counter, puzzling over the supermarket scanner.
Whether the choice of payment is by debit or credit card, gift card, check or mobile phone, online or at the checkout counter, First Data takes every opportunity to go beyond the transaction.
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You can deposit checks with a free smartphone app, set up direct deposit from your employer, pay bills online, and even add cash to your card from any Walmart checkout counter, all with no fees.
Brands in all categories overall have kept up by only 8%, which anyone at the checkout counter can tell you is an awfully big gap between what you have and what the customer really desires.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is joining Citigroup and Mastercard to set up a mobile payment system that would let Android users wave their phones in front of a small reader at a checkout counter to pay for something.
"It's all about how fast they can get customers through the checkout counter, " says Madeline Aufseeser, a payments-industry analyst at Aite Group LLC, a financial-services research firm, who is skeptical many large merchants would try surcharging for fear of angering consumers.
Three major U.S. mobile operators have created a joint venture known as ISIS, which intends to build a mobile payment solution that will allow consumers to make purchases at retail stores with just a wave of a mobile phone at the checkout counter.
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