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12% -- online retail share of global sales for global retail (2019)

2019  · eMarketer

Online retail sales are projected to account for more than 12% of global retail sales by 2019.

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12%
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2019
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global retail
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https://www.tayloegray.com/2016/02/connected-commerce-is-creating-buyers-without-borders/ ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2019 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Connected Commerce Is Creating Buyers Without Borders - Tayloe/Gray
In fact, digital analytics firm eMarketer projects that online retail sales will more than double between 2015 and 2019 and account for more than 12% of global sales by 2019. Retail therapy is giving way to e-tail therapy. To gain a better understanding of how consumers are navigating the connected …
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Period Value Change
2016 7.6%
2019 (current) 12% +57.9%
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global retail: 12% online retail share of global sales. Source: eMarketer (2019). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/online-retail-share-global-sales-2019
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/online-retail-share-global-sales-2019" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>12%</strong> -- online retail share of global sales for global retail<br><small>Source: eMarketer (2019) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/online-retail-share-global-sales-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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