The data, collected by Statistics Canada, shows the large growth of ecommerce over the last 5 months For May, online sales came to C$3.8 billion in total, a 112% increase on online sales in May of last year. This figure does not include sales at online-only U.S. stores such as Amazon The ecommerce boost…
Latest research from Mintel has found that 4 out of 10 Candians (37%) were shopping more online by mid April as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates ecommerce growth 22% of those asked also said that they were shopping more online because of the pandemic, in an effort to avoid physical stores Mintel’s research also shows…
Walmart Incs has recorded its biggest ever growth in online sales this week as shoppers move to ordering groceries online due to the effects of Covid-19 Ecommerce sales rose a total of 97% for the quarter with gross margins increasing 24.9%, far higher than expected Total revenue rose just over 5% to US$137.74 billion, despite…
If anyone at the start of this year could have accurately predicted how 2020 would unfold, I think it is fair to say that almost all of us would have taken the news with quite a bit of skepticism. But as the pandemic continues, this extraordinary series of events has come to play with…
Canada Post has said that through April and May the agency was struggling to deal with the massive increase in deliveries as people turned to ecommerce for products Jon Hamilton, spokesperson for Canada Post said “We saw parcel levels that we would normally only see around Christmas — we would deliver up to two-million…
Affirm allows for customers to pay for products in instalments. “Shop Pay Instalments” will be rolled out later this year and allows for payments to be broken into four equal bi-weekly segments. Affirm CEO Max Levchin, who is also one of the founders of PayPal, said that they had seen “unbelievable traction on Shopify…
