E-Commerce (Goods)

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…

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…

During 2020, e-commerce retail constant value sales (2021 prices) plunged by almost three quarters. The departure of Jumia Technologies AG from Cameroon in late 2019 left a hole that no remaining player has the capacity to fill. However, it has not…

E-commerce (goods) had been expanding at a rapid rate in Bulgaria even before the onset of the pandemic, but COVID-19 accelerated this trend, with retail constant value sales (2021 prices) almost doubling between 2019 and 2021. With non-essential…

COVID-19 boosted e-commerce value sales, recording double-digit growth in 2020, with this trend continuing in 2021. During the lockdown, e-commerce was the only channel available for retailers across product areas to continue to operate their…

Historically, online spending by Ecuadorians has been primarily focused on services and entertainment. However, consumption patterns in this area have changed dramatically since the outbreak of COVID-19, with people increasingly choosing to purchase…

The COVID-19 pandemic first hit the Hungarian market in early 2020, with further waves in 2021 due to the emergence of new variants of the virus. This resulted in lockdowns, mandatory outlet closures and shorter opening hours, and kept shoppers away…

E-commerce saw current value sales almost double in 2020, with the channel attracting many new first-time users. Due to the COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing measures, many consumers struggled to buy the same range of goods that they were…

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of growth in e-commerce retail current value sales slowed slightly during 2020 but remained vigorous. While the economic shock of the pandemic led many local consumers to rein in their discretionary…

The 2020 lockdowns led to surge in e-commerce, partly driven by one of the longest global lockdowns. In addition, another contributing factor to the exponential growth was that in October 2020 the Government approved a new Knowledge Economy Law that…