New shopping report shows massive sales growth around Boxing Day for Canadian shoppers

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%…

Retail sales rise for 7th straight month as ecommerce fuels growth

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…

Grocery chains continue to expand online shopping and delivery for 2021

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…

Canada Post delivered a million parcels a day for 181 consecutive days as online sale rise leads to new records

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,…