Wal-Mart and Target are among roughly two dozen retailers working together to develop a mobile-payments system to compete with similar products from Google and big cellphone companies.
The push represents an effort by frustrated merchants to get the upper hand in the fast-developing market that turns cellphones into payment devices. The race pits the retailers against banks, credit-card networks, telecommunications firms and technology companies.
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