Segment Information - Additional Information (Details)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021 sales_channel segment category
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of operating segments \| segment	2
Number of reportable segments \| segment	2
Business
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of sales channels \| sales_channel	4
Number of categories of products and services \| category	4
Mass Markets
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of categories of products and services \| category	4

Represents the number of categories in which the entity categorizes the products and services.

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Number Of Sales Channel

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- Definition

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8672-108599

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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