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…
Canada Post has revealed a series of statistics from 2020, as the ecommerce boom brings record levels of online deliveries From mid-April until the end of the year, the parcel service delivered over 1 million packages a day. In the final 2 weeks before Christmas, 20 million were delivered, 2.4 million on Monday 21st alone,…
Despite 2020 being an extremely challenging year for retail, ecommerce sales saw a record growth rate of 27.6%, with the total amount pushing past US$4 trillion According to data gathered by eMarketer, the rate of growth will slow to 14.3% this year and 10.9% by 2022, but sales will continue to rise, pushing $5.42 trillion…
Online sales in Canada rose 72% through 2020, one of the largest eccommerce growth rates in the world, ahead of Australia, China, Germany, Japan and the US. This figure does not include food and catering services. In total, online sales made up 6.3% of all retail sales in Canada, a percentage much lower then other…
Speciality tea retailer DavidsTea has seen an increase in ecommerce of 145% as the company bounces back from being hard hit by the first quarter of 2020 The Montreal based firm was forced to close all but 18 of its stores in March with the company moving to mainly operate online. The move has seen…
Small business from across Canada are uniting to tackle Amazon and find a foothold online with a new website named Not-Amazon.ca, designed to connect local businesses with customers Started in the Greater Toronto Area, small businesses have joined from Halifax, Calgary and Vancouver among other places as they look to successful trade online Surveys by…
