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