Digital Technology Transforms Retail, Healthcare And Mobile Apps

By  |  October 19, 2020
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Walgreens Digital Retail

Walgreens is accelerating its digital transformation and putting its money where its platform is. In retail, Walmart is beating out Amazon in health and beauty, although the category as a whole experienced strong online growth for Q3. And in healthcare, a new partnership involving a digital platform aims to help gig workers get health coverage, while in mobile payments, apps are deploying technology to guard against scams. All this, Today in Data.

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    Data:

    400%: Minimum increase of average weekly enrollments in the Walgreens Prescription Savings club since June.

    173.5%: Q3’s YOY online growth in the health and beauty category, according to PriceSpider data.

    70%: Share of bank customers who are willing to share email addresses, birthdays and other standard information for security purposes.

    2M: Number of workers in the delivery, restaurant and other industries using the Jobble gig-working platform.

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    1B: Minimum number of individuals around the world who use some sort of P2P payment app.


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