Retail’s Push Toward Digital Technology And Vaccines 

Amazon and Walmart remained flat or lost ground in the battle for overall U.S. retail and consumer spend in Q3, even as the pandemic continued to push consumers toward online shopping. In automated retail, the Hudson Group intends to bring Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology to some of the C-stores it runs at North American airports and other locations. And in pandemic commerce, firms that employ thousands of front-line hourly or gig workers have unveiled plans to pay bonuses to those who receive the COVID-19 vaccine. All this, Today in Data.

Data:

$111B: Amazon’s online sales in Q3, as the pandemic continued to push consumers toward eCommerce.

38.4%: Share of Americans who said they “definitely” or “likely” wouldn’t get vaccinated for COVID-19.

$25: Amount of Instacart’s announced “Vaccine Support Stipend.”

8.7%: Portion of Walmart’s total share of U.S. retail spending in Q3.

1K: Minimum number of Hudson’s stores at airports and other locations throughout North America.