Driving Innovation With Digital Payments, Retail Technology 

Digital Commerce

eCommerce wine and beverage alcohol sales continue to outperform last year’s levels during COVID-19. In merchant innovation, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have responded to public health needs and shoppers’ new demands by rolling out omnichannel approaches to sales. And in mobile payments, Google Pay recently debuted a redesign that included an integration with the Plex “Smart DDA.” All this, Today in Data.

Data:

$176M: Amount Wine.com’s revenue in the first half of its fiscal year.

57%: Share of shoppers who choose merchants based partly on whether they offer digital payment options.

$49: Yearly cost of StewardShip, Wine.com’s unlimited shipping program.

150M: Number of Google Pay users.

11: Number of financial institutions that have signed on to be part of Google Pay’s Plex account program.