Home Depot has revamped its loyalty program by allowing Pro Xtra members to earn points for shopping and redeeming benefits via its app. In consumer spending, Amazon and Walmart are pushing to capture the electronics portion of the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck. And in payments innovation, tokenization and data vaulting take the sting out of payment card industry (PCI) compliance. All this, Today in Data.
Data:
2012: The year Home Depot started its Pro Xtra program.
$999: Price of the MacBook Air on Amazon and the Apple Store.
$617: Approximate amount each American spends yearly on electronics and appliances.
246: Number of non-waivable regulatory requirements under PCI DSS.
$6.8B: Estimated size of the global tokenization market by 2027.