The number of ecommerce users worldwide raised significantly in 2020 with a 9.5% increase from the prior year, according to new data from Finaria This puts the global figure roughly at 3.4 billion people who shopped online last year. However, Finaria expects this number to climb again next year The estimate is predicting a 10%…
Customer relationship management experts Salesforce have published their 2020 Holiday Shopping Report, which unveils a new look at the growth of ecommerce in Canada Ecommerce holiday shopping revenue grew 70% from the same time last year, with 123% growth for the pre-Christmas period. Boxing Day saw online shopping sales rise 2170% on 2019, with 63%…
Google has announced that its multimedia story-telling format Web Stories is an inner advertising function similar to the company’s global ads system Web Stories, which was originally named AMP Stories, struggled to meet popularity expectations at first and has taken time to grow. Before the only way to advertise with the format was to use…
Retail sales rose 1.3% for November of last year, the 7th consecutive month that had seen a rise. The results, released by Statistics Canada, point towards Black Friday sales and early Christmas shopping for the rise that month The agency’s statistics showed that ecommerce retail sales rose 75.9% for November, compared to the same time…
Sobeys, Metro and Loblaws, who make up 60% of Canada’s supermarket industry have all announced further moves towards catering to online grocery shopping in 2021 Sarah Joyce, senior vice-president of ecommerce at Sobeys said “We are seeing growth rates today that we expected to see three or four years from now” Sobeys, who opened a…
The 2021 Canadian Consumer Trends Guide has laid out its predictions for retail ecommerce and what will attract customers in, using data from 2020 to formulate the report Stores and companies offering value and diverse payment offers are seen by the guide to be most likely to succeed in 2021, with customers being drawn by…
