Available warehouse space is rapidly shrinking across Canada as the rise of ecommerce sees more brands selling online and needing storage and fulfilment centres. Retail ecommerce sales in Canada increased 110% to CA$3.5 billion in January according to Statistics Canada. Its success has seen more companies look to online to fill the gap left by…
A recent report by JLL shows that Canada’s biggest retailers and the food industry have embraced delivery and pickup options with the growth of ecommerce. As online customer shopping habits have changed, looking for safer interactions and convenience, companies have changed to accommodate with the majority of Canada’s top 50 retailers now offering delivery services.…
A Deloitte study showed that 36% of customers are more willing to purchase products when it has been part of personalised content, with 31# saying they wished more content was personalised. As ecommerce grows in both the amount of stores online and in usage by consumers, brands need to look for new ways to engage…
Canada saw year-on-year growth for online sales reach between 175% to 625% between March and May of last year. The surge of ecommerce has seen many turn to online to offer new ways to connect audiences with their stores. Canadian consumers have been shown to have a willingness to adopt alternative and new payment methods,…
As 40% of small Canadian businesses selling online say that their biggest challenge to success is attracting customers, the importance of content is heightened. Relevant content helps generate more traffic to your website, in particularly blog posts on topics your audience needs answers to. You should be optimizing website pages around the keywords that your…
Google is set to release a number of new updates to Google Maps and Google My Business (GMB) which include new features for pickup and delivery options for online stores. Businesses will be able to show delivery fees, providers, order minimums and pickup and delivery options, further highlighting the importance of having an up-to-date online…
Canadian ecommerce sales saw a massive surge from previous years, fueled in part by lockdown measures, with retail sales up 83.6% year-over-year. This trend is expected to continue in 2021. In total, CA$39.5 million was made in ecommerce sales by Canadian businesses in the last 12 months, with $15.7 billion of that from brick and…
Research conducted by Maru/Matchbox for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) shows that half (48%) of small businesses plan to continue selling online after the pandemic has ended, with only 2% saying they will shut down operations once social distancing ends. The online prescense stores had was seen by 51% to be a essential…
Ecommerce growth has seen mobile shopping rise rapidly too, as the convenience and quick access has appealed to customers. By 2017, mobile ecommerce had already registered 300% growth. It is predicted that by mid way through the current decade, mobile ecommerce could hold between 25% to over 60% of all ecommerce sales. A 2015 survey…
Monthly retail ecommerce sales pass CA$2.9 billion following the impact of the pandemic in 2020, with May of last year registering $3.9 billion. The statistics, which run until September of last year, show that every month after April 2020 surpassed the total ecommerce sales in December of 2019, CA$2.7 billion. Retail ecommerce registered in sales…