[velavar]

>> everyday BNPL orders, including groceries, accounted for barely 1% of all purchases in 2021.

> Presumably the share for groceries alone didn't increase meaningfully in 2022, or that would have been noted for effect, so we're looking at less than 1.4% of all BNPL payments for groceries.

It could just mean that BNPL as a product was not much used a couple of years ago, no? It could just mean that these folks would merely then put their groceries on a revolving credit card (which in many ways is worse). It doesn't necessarily mean folks are shifting to riskier forms of debt?

[__derek__]

Ah, my pull-quote is confusing because it leaves out the context that the denominator here is all BNPL purchases, not all purchases.

That said, you're right that this could also just be a product of new offerings, as BNPL in point-of-sale systems is newer than BNPL online.