Walmart joins the cashless game – but can small merchants afford this?

This new form of automated self-service shopping will sweep the industry, but the impact for small business is enormousLast month, and on the heels of its latest cashier-less grocery store opening in Chicago, Bloomberg reported that online giant Amazon.com is planning on opening around 3,000 similar outlets by 2021. It’s an obvious direct assault on other grocery and food chains like 7-Eleven, Subway and Panera Bread. But it’s also an attack on the thousands of mom-and-pop pizza, con