Approaches To Vaccines, B2B Payments And Disbursements

COVID Vaccines

Pharmacies inside of Meijer are getting ready for an extensive vaccine administration effort, but the willingness of consumers to receive a vaccine is hardly universal. In disbursements, tough economic realities have forced many U.S. consumers to depend on financial relief, but antiquated disbursement methods can provide financial and logistical challenges for state and federal agencies. And in B2B payments, firms are revising and automating their transaction methods amid the pandemic. All this, Today in Data.

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    Data:

    256: Number of supercenters and grocery locations across MI, IN, KY, OH, IL and WI run by Meijer.

    69.8%: Share of accounting payable professionals who wanted to innovate AP to save time in 2019.

    38.4%: Portion of consumers who have said that they definitely or likely would not get a vaccine.

    $30T: Approximate amount consumers and businesses still receive annually via paper checks.

    $1.3B: Amount the Illinois state government spent on check disbursements in 2019.