Family Video, America’s last major video rental store chain, plans to shutter all of its brick-and-mortar stores. In logistics, Amazon and Walmart are throwing everything from drones to driverless trucks into the battle for the shopper’s whole paycheck. And in dining, loyalty and rewards programs have surfaced as an effective tool that can help eateries bolster revenues and meet diners’ desires to order from home. All this, Today in Data.
Data:
1978: The year Family Video opened its first store.
800: Approximate store count that Family Video had as its peak.
90%: Share of Americans who live within 10 miles of a Walmart.
73%: Share of QSR customers ordering food both online and offline.
70K: Number of miles of test drives Walmart conducted before getting approval to run driverless trucks.
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