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Cash, credit or debit? You may one day have far more choices to make at the checkout counter. A group of big retailers, includin
Cash, credit or debit? You may one day have far more choices to make at the checkout counter. A group of big retailers, includin
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2014-04-20
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Cash, credit or debit? You may one day have far more choices to make at the checkout counter. A group of big retailers, including 7-Eleven, Best Buy, CVS and Wal-Mart, said on Wednesday that they were forming a company that would offer a way for customers to pay for purchases with their smartphones, joining a wide array of businesses seeking a piece of this market.
Other than announcing the formation of the payment network, to be called Merchant Customer Exchange, the companies gave few details about how their mobile system would work or when it would be released. They said that their payment application would be available for virtually any smartphone, and that it would use a secure technology to process transactions. Fourteen companies so far have agreed to help develop the mobile wallet system, and more are expected to join the alliance later.
Michael A. Cook, vice president and assistant treasurer of Wal-Mart, said the merchants in the group, which have $ 1 trillion in annual sales, knew people’s shopping habits and payment preferences, so it made sense for them to work together.
The announcement came a week after Starbucks said it was teaming up with Square, a start-up company that lets people make purchases with their smartphones. Howard D. Schultz, chief executive of Starbucks, joined Square’s board. Some speculated that this partnership risked alienating other big retailers, by giving Starbucks influence over how Square’s payment system was developed. In addition to Square and similar start-ups, many types of businesses are hoping to
make a grab
at the mobile wallet market, including phone carriers, credit card companies and big tech companies like Google and Microsoft.
While competition in a market is typically a good thing, giving consumers many different options to make a mobile payment could leave them baffled. Charles S. Golvin, a Forrester analyst who focuses on mobile technology. said that in order for a mobile wallet product to gain at traction, it would need to be an open system that allowed customers to pay for anything, anywhere.
Mr. Golvin said the newly announced merchants’ payment network seemed as if it could gain traction with customers who shop regularly at the businesses that are part of the group. But he added that it did not seem likely to generate a compelling product that would give the idea of mobile payments the push it needed. " It does not strike me as a driver for the fundamental shift to mobile payments that the industry at large is counting on," he said.
It is indicated in Paragraphs 1 and 2 that______.
选项
A、the way for customers to pay is still limited so far
B、several big retailers are planning to incorporate
C、the name of the new network may be changed
D、compatibility of the payment system is satisfactory
答案
D
解析
推断题。第二段第二句提到加入Merchant Customer Exchange的公司对他们所开发的系统的介绍:their payment application would be available for virtually any smartphone(这个系统可以应用于几乎所有的智能手机)。再根据后文所说,已有14家公司同意帮助开发这个移动支付系统,并且有更多的公司有望在今后也加人进来,可见这个系统可以适用于大多数用户,也为很多公司所接受,其兼容性是比较令人满意的,故[D]为答案。第一段首句提到今后将可能有除了现金、信用卡和借记卡之外的其他付款方式,但并没有对目前付款方式是否足够丰富进行评价,故[A]为过度推断,应排除。[B]是对第二段相关内容的误解,原文只是说多个公司加入移动支付系统的开发,而并没有说要进行合并。[C]误解了第二段第一句话,原文的意思是说声明没有宣布这个名叫“Merchant Customer Exchange”的系统正式建成,而是公布了很多相关细节,并非名字有所更改,故[C]也应排除。
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