Today in Data: Debit Shopping Emerges, Truth of the Holiday Shopping Season, Sustainability’s Place in Retail

By  |  January 12, 2022
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eCommerce to Spike Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday

Today in Data, retailers are looking to define and employ sustainability principles in their futures. Plus, shoppers are leaning more often toward using their debit cards for holiday shopping — and other purchases — and Abercrombie and Lululemon both say their holiday sales were sluggish, contradicting some of the optimism about economic recovery.

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    740: Number of Abercrombie stores

    11%: Projected growth in online retail sales during 2021 holiday shopping season

    2,250: Number of companies using the Science Based Targets initiative on sustainability

    44%: Share of Gen Z shoppers who prefer to use their debit cards

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    55%: Share of holiday shoppers who planned to use their debit cards


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