Mobile POS Interests 2 in 3 Retailers, Primarily for Customer Service

2 in 3 retailers are interested in investigating a mobile point of sale (POS) or mobile point of payment (POP) solution, finds Motorola Solutions [pdf] in April 2012 survey results. Eliminating those not interested and looking purely at the subset who are, the report finds that 23% currently have a solution deployed, while a further 43.5% are currently piloting or planning to start a trial in the next 36 months. The remainder will either begin using a mobile POS solution beyond 36 months (1.3%) from now, or are interested in exploring the options (32.2%) for doing so. (more…)