Retail: Includes mail order/catalog, restaurants/fast food, drugstores, retail stores, cosmetics stores, and merchants of apparel, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise.

Pet products: We estimate US ecommerce sales of pet products grew 45.6% in 2020, reaching $15.20 billion. In 2021, the subcategory will grow 7.1% to $16.28 billion in sales, or 19.0% of total health/personal care/beauty ecommerce sales. Overall, the pandemic had a significant impact on the share of ecommerce purchases within the category.

Grocery items are products that people regularly buy from a grocery store, including food and beverages, pet food, household cleaning products, personal care products, and other household consumables. This excludes restaurant sales.

Beauty saw the fastest growth in CPCs, at 41% year over year, while home and garden and pet supplies faced the next highest rates, at 33% and 27% over Q3 2020, respectively. More like this:. Report: Facebook Advertising 2021. Article: Google, Facebook, and Amazon to account for 64% of US digital ad spending this year. Article: The future of Google Search is visual.

Retail: Includes mail order/catalog, restaurants/fast food, drug stores, retail stores, cosmetics stores, and merchants of apparel, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise. Travel: Includes airlines, car rental, hotels and resorts, cruises, and destination marketing organizations; includes both leisure and business travel.

Most of the retailers on that shortened list have one thing in common: They capitalized on pandemic-induced spending on home improvement, online grocery, and pet products while offering consumers convenient fulfillment options, great prices, or both. Three of the top 15 retailers will post a sales growth rate of at least 25% this year, with Amazon coming just under at 24.9%.

Uber can deliver flowers and Estée Lauder cosmetics, while DoorDash's DashMart sells its own stock of convenience store items, including food and beverage products, pet food, and over-the-counter medicine. By offering a suite of different products through a single platform, these companies are becoming retail super apps on their own accord. Latin America.

The feature would expand on the instant messaging service’s Groups tool to let admins create groups within Groups—for example, a pet lovers group could get one channel dedicated to cats and one for dogs. There will also reportedly be a Community Invite Link, making it easy to bring others to a group. What this means: For one, the feature could help increase engagement.

Not only does car insurance cost more than Lemonade’s current coverage options, but the US car insurance industry is worth about $300 billion—70 times the size of the renters and pet insurance markets combined.

To understand how getting a fuller picture of your customers’ lives can help you better serve them, let’s examine the connection between home buying patterns and... pet ownership. In 2020, more than 11 million families adopted a pet. And adding a pet to the family affected spending habits in some surprising ways.

Bigatel has worked at Amazon for more than 15 years helping grow the business within various categories, such as the consumable space, pet product offerings, sporting goods equipment, and more. Insider Intelligence: What was the idea behind the Amazon Local Selling program? Pat Bigatel: There’s been a lot of focus at Amazon on empowering small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Instead, more people plan to do homebound activities, like decorate their houses (52% versus 49%) and dress up their pets (20% versus 17%). That shows in expected spending. Without big parties or events to attend, costume spending was the only category not to hit an all-time high, barely edged out by 2017 spending.