Rising Interest In Digital Retail And Debit Cards

Debit Payment

Beauty technology firm Perfect Corp. is letting consumers digitally “try on” different makeup, hair colors, hairstyles, nail polish and other looks. In brick and mortar, the number of U.S. convenience stores dropped last year amid the pandemic, yet many shops are fighting back with digital technology and other innovations. And in M&A, Office Depot is turning down a bid from Staples to buy the office supply company outright, while in next-gen debit, a number of U.S. consumers have started to tap their debit cards more frequently for payments. All this, Today in Data.

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    Data:

    2015: The year that Staples last tried to acquire Office Depot.

    150.2K: Approximate number of operating convenience stores in the U.S. as of December 2020.

    $50M: Amount of Perfect Corp.’s recently closed Series C funding round.

    28%: Portion of millennial consumers who consider themselves to be debit-centric users.

    11: Number of countries in which beauty tech firm Perfect Corp. operates.