Tag: Cross-Border Shopping

Most of the online purchases in the Middle East and Africa are made on computers. UAE achieved the highest rate of using devices for purchasing cross-border, such as smart TV and feature phone, followed by Nigeria and Egypt. UAE also achieved the highest use of smartphones use for cross-border purchasing, followed by Egypt with a …

Clothing or apparel, footwear and accessories come at the top preference categories for cross-border purchase with a rate of 46%, followed by electronics such as computers, tablets, and mobiles with a rate of 29%, then travel and transportation with a rate of 25%.

In the Middle East, 13% of online shoppers are cross-border shoppers, and 46% of them are shopping domestically and cross-border, while only 41% of shoppers stated that the shop only from domestic sources. These figures show how many shoppers find a limited selection in local online stores; this is why they prefer cross-border e-commerce. Latin Americas‘ online …

Technology enables people to shop across borders, anywhere, anytime and via any device, so we need to identify the insights into how and why consumers shop cross-borders: US and China are the biggest markets in terms of online spend, followed by Japan and the UK, while Argentina achieved the biggest annual growth rate in mobile …

Today’s estimated African population of 1.1 billion represents about 15% of the world’s total. The gross national income (GNI) per capita in Africa is about one quarter of the world average gross national income and the total international B2C trade from Africa and the entire Middle East region represented only about 2.2% of the world’s …