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04 January 2020 With a record growth of 72% in POS in five years, Italian stores are ready to face the onslaught of consumers in the first sales of 2020 by deploying over 3 million terminals for payments with debit and credit cards at the checkout. The data emerges from an analysis of the European Union of cooperatives (Uecoop) on Bankitalia data in view of the challenge at the last discount with the Italians ready to show off over 98 million cards including ATMs, credit cards and multipurpose prepaid cards.

These are numbers that signal an increasingly widespread use of electronic money used transversally - highlights Uecoop - for all types of purchase: from clothes to car tires, from beauty treatments to gyms, from tiles to jewelry, from toys to food. in supermarkets and bakeries, from car insurance to travel passes. A payment system also pushed online with almost 39 million Italians who surfed the Internet at least once in the last quarter, explains Uecoop on Istat data.

In Italy in a year almost 28 billion euros are spent on the network for purchases on fashion, electronics, personal care, food, furnishings, appliances, toys, music and video games as well as travel and hotel accommodation, Uecoop points out on Digital data. The spread of web purchases with electronic payments also increases the risk of fraud - concludes Uecoop - with web criminals who increasingly aim to steal credit or debit card codes to empty the victim's current account as much as possible with purchases around the world.