Why Search And Logistics Will Shape The Future Of Retail Payments

ronically, they are also the two things that shaped the modern payments landscape as we know it today, as it grew up and got wired over the last 60 years – and why that playbook is being disrupted by players decades their junior with market caps that rival or even dwarf their own.It’s why we’re witness to unprecedented waves of consolidation in the merchant acquiring and payments processing space – and why there will be even more to come in the short and longer term. The most powerful force in payments right now is what’s happening at the intersection of payments, search and logistics – particularly as digital is disrupting how consumers find, order, pay and receive the things they want to buy.The low bar now for payments in a digital-driven retail world isn’t whether it enables a transaction on a website or in an app, but whether it can eliminate friction for consumers who want an efficient way to find, buy and take delivery of what they purchase.