Shopify’s marketplace for buying and selling e-commerce businesses built by Shopify merchants. Over the last year, the retail industry has experienced tremendous disruption and with these changes, both merchants and their customers have found new opportunities. In its first Shopify’s state of commerce report, Shopify found that online storefronts represent over 80% of sales and …
49% of teachers in the US cited that they prefer to shop for classroom items online, compared to 22% prefer to do so in-store. In terms of frequency of purchasing, 36% of them shop every few months, 28% shop every month, 22% shop before the school year starts and 6% said they only shop as …
70% of Chinese online shoppers have made a digital purchase process at least weekly; 24% of them have made so daily. When these proportions compared with the US digital shopping frequency, the US lagged behind China as the rate of online purchase totaled 43% (28% weekly & 15% daily).
People in UK and Ireland have the highest frequency of weekly e-commerce use, while people in Poland are shopping most frequently on a daily basis. The countries with lowest weekly purchase are Finland, Latvia, Bulgaria, Denmark and Estonia. They show good levels of engagement from consumers with regard to the other purchase frequencies.
1 in 4 Europeans internet users is purchasing products or services online at least once a week in 2016. While 3 in 5 are monthly purchases, and also 9 out of 10 Europeans shopping online at least once a year. Only 6% of Europeans shop online every day and this drop in comparison to weekly …