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PayPoint launches in-store push for digital vouchers in run-up to Christmas

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PayPoint is to step up in-store promotion of its digital vouchers service to consumers in the run-up to Christmas with the roll-out of new point-of-sale materials. The payments provider has arrangements with Amazon, Xbox, PlayStation and Love2Shop among others, which allow customers to shop digitally through vouchers. In the coming weeks PayPoint will be rolling …

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