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Impact of inflation on preferred e-commerce payment method in Austria 2022
Cost of living in 2022 changed payment behavior for online shopping in Austria, with nearly five out of 10 respondents now using credit cards more often. This was according to a survey held in 10 different countries across North America, Europa and Latin America, and purely asked on whether cost of living had changed payment behavior in those countries. Credit cards, BNPL, and crypto were all used more often, but neither saw the largest growth: 53 percent of respondents who changed their payment habits because of the rising cost of living in 2022 were paying online with digital wallets more often than they did in the previous year. Note that the source separates a digital wallet - citing Skrill and NETELLER as examples - from a mobile wallet - to which it assigns Google Pay and Apple Pay.