E-Commerce (Goods)

As seen globally, use of e-commerce surged during the pandemic, as consumers turned to shopping online to avoid exposure to the COVID-19 virus. With non-essential stores having to close temporarily under restrictions, retailers were forced to switch…

Despite e-commerce’s exceptionally strong retail value sales growth during 2020, stronger sales growth was limited by the ongoing weakness of the country’s e-commerce infrastructure during the pandemic. At the beginning of the crisis, many retailers…

The e-commerce boom continued in Norway in 2021 thanks to the high penetration of internet and smartphone devices, continued fears of visiting high traffic shopping areas, and the ease and convenience the channel offers. This is leading to increased…

Aided by the impact of the pandemic, restrictions on the operations of physical stores (including the temporary closure of non-essential brick-and-mortar outlets) and consumers’ reluctance to leave their homes, 2021 was another year of rapid…

The strong double-digit sales growth that was seen in e-commerce in Malaysia throughout the review. Remains in effect in 2021, although sales growth was somewhat slower than what was seen during 2020. While e-commerce was already growing very…

Having surged by more than two thirds in 2020, e-commerce (goods) retail current value sales rose by another quarter in 2021. During 2020, the lockdown period over March-May encouraged consumers to order and purchase online across almost all product…

In January 2020, as Australia began to wake up to the fact that a pandemic was sweeping across the nation, the country’s retail industry experienced a radical and rapid transformation. Although stores selling groceries and other necessities were…

E-commerce continued to gain significant value share in 2021. While growth was not quite as high as in 2020, when value sales increased by more than a half, there was very healthy double-digit value growth in 2021. In fact, Croatia is seeing one of…

Having surged by three quarters during 2020, e-commerce retail constant value sales (2021 prices) stabilised in 2021 – with growth slowing to low single digits – as COVID-19 restrictions were eased and a growing number of consumers returned to…

The emergence of the pandemic and all subsequent restrictions that ensued as the local government attempted to control the spread of the virus, accelerated the development of e-commerce in Portugal, with sales increasing in 2020 at levels that most…

Lazada, Qoo10, and Shopee have official brand stores for both consumers and luxury brands, ensuring the authenticity of a product, as a consumer is less likely to question the authenticity of a product brought from an official store on Lazada's…

Having surged by almost a fifth in 2020, e-commerce retail current value sales were little better than flat in 2021. COVID-19 was the main driver of growth during 2020: With physical stores closed for an extended period during lockdown and consumers…

While there was an expectation for e-commerce’s explosive growth to be mostly restricted to 2020, the great influx of money created by the three consecutive pension fund withdrawals translated into 2021 recording further double-digit current growth,…

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the already dynamic expansion of e-commerce in Colombia, and this trend continued in 2021. Growth in the banked population and the diversification of payment methods, as well as an incremental trust in the logic of…

E-commerce continued to gain significant value share in 2021. While growth was not as high as in 2020, when value sales increased by more nearly third, there was very healthy double-digit value growth in 2021. The fact that online shopping continued…

Having grown steadily for most of the review period, the rate of growth in e-commerce retail current value sales accelerated sharply during 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic encouraged a growing number of middle- and high-income consumers to shop online…

E-commerce, which was already gaining in popularity and recording impressive growth rates above the average in retailing in Israel over the review period, received a huge boost as a result of the pandemic in 2020, a trend that continued in 2021.…

E-commerce continued to see strong double-digit growth in 2021, especially during the closure of shopping centres and department stores early in the year when the new wave of COVID-19 hit Denmark. Online shopping also continued to provide consumers…

The arrival of COVID-19 caused Vietnamese e-commerce to accelerate in 2020 and this continued in 2021. Due to the repetitive lockdowns and ongoing social distancing, many more consumers have been doing their shopping online. In 2021, current value…

E-commerce continued to register high double-digit value growth in 2021, as the boost in e-commerce driven by the 2020 lockdowns continued to boost value sales. While e-commerce had been growing prior to the pandemic, the pandemic represented a fuel…