While people stayed at home and were unable to go shopping in stores, online shops were busy delivering. The development of the global e-commerce market is still on an upward trend.
in 2021 alone, global e-commerce sales will increase by 24 percent to around $4,290 billion. This is a significant increase on the previous year's growth of 17.9 percent.
One in five purchases is now made online: e-commerce now accounts for 20 percent of total retail sales.
For November 2021, the Smartstore e-commerce platform records an increase in market shares of over 50 percent. By far the strongest growth is seen in South Korea (29.27 percent), while Germany accounts for 16.29 percent and the USA for 7.21 percent.
