The tides are changing when it comes to the tobacco growth and sales. There is an alternative to the tobacco that alternative is an electronic cigarette. This changing tide is making its mark on the tobacco economy. E-cigarettes are very different from traditional cigarettes. E-cigarettes use nicotine instead of tobacco. The e-cigarette is designed to heat up the liquid that...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has proposed a tax on e-cigs in his 2015 budget proposal, making this popular cigarette alternative just as expensive as traditional combustible cigarettes. A tax on e-cigarettes would raise an estimated $35 million for the state. The potential to generate such large revenues from taxes on e-cigarettes, have led to other states considering the same...
State legislators across the United States are feeling the heat to distinguish e-cigs from combustible cigarettes that use tobacco. In Tennessee a battle is raging over if and how to regulate e-cigarettes, a new alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes, whose popularity has led to a booming “vaping” culture and staggering profits. Wells Fargo Securities analyst Bonnie Herzog, says that the...
The upcoming of MasterCard and Visa (EMV) chip and pin cards to the U.S. has many American merchants worried about the inevitable shift of credit and debit card fraud from the point of sale to online channels. EMV cards, while highly effective in thwarting counterfeiting and related card-present fraud, offer no more fraud protection on the Internet than the magnetic-stripe...
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With as many as 5 million mobile point-of-sale readers in circulation in the United States, mobile POS companies will have their hands full following the liability shift set for October 2015 when the nation’s payment card networks step up the migration to the MasterCard-Visa chip and pin system. While this change is fantastic for security reasons, there are sure to...
Do you remember the good ol’ days of shopping with a credit card? Those days when it took a long time to check out, and clerk had to verify your signature, and check your driver’s license. This does not happen much anymore; in fact, at some retailers if you have previously used your card they do not ask for your...
For a while there has been a bit of a battle between QR codes (those little codes that you can with your smartphone to tell you information) and NFC Chips. As with most things, eventually one will come out ahead, leaving the competitor in the dust. However, thanks to technological advances, the winner may not be as clear as once...
Cyber criminals and data hackers are constantly finding new ways to defeat retailers’ data security and fraud prevention systems. Sometimes these criminals come in a swipe thousands of dollars at once, or just a few dollars. Regardless of the amount stolen, the fact is that it should not happen. However, there are new technologies on the horizon to help stop...
Last month, CVS decided to wind down its cigarette sales as the drug chain focuses more on being a health company. Selling a consumer product responsible for nearly 500,000 American deaths each year goes against their moral code. While this may be financially terrible for CVS, it is fantastic for the public at large. It is also fantastic for E-Cigs,...
