In Switzerland, delivery times have also lengthened. The newspaper Zofinger Tagblatt reported that an order made at the online store LeShop on a recent Tuesday morning couldn’t be delivered before Saturday morning, and these delays applied in Zürich and smaller towns. The supermarket Migros told online customers that the volume of orders meant that not all delivery dates were available.

Though the US lags well behind some countries in mobile payment adoption—particularly China—it still ranks as a high adopter across the globe, along with Japan, Switzerland, Norway and Canada. We forecast that 29.0% of US smartphone users made a proximity mobile payment at least once within a six-month period in 2019. This translates to 64.0 million people, and a 9.1% increase year over year.

We expect 12.5% of smartphone users in Germany will use proximity payments this year, which is behind figures for Switzerland (22.3%), Italy (21.1%), the UK (19.1%), France (15.6%) and the Western European average (17.8%). Across all generations in Germany, mobile payment methods are not widely adopted, even among millennials.