Pre-pandemic, UK retail ecommerce sales were already on a steady ascent. Apart from China, no other country we tracked in 2019 had ecommerce account for a larger proportion of total retail sales. The stay-at-home orders announced in late March, along with government-enforced shop shuttering, have helped accelerate this trend in the UK.

We include the following consumer categories in our definition of retail ecommerce sales:.

We include the following consumer categories in our definition of retail ecommerce sales:.

“Non-coincidentally, both marketplaces have something in common: Chinese influence,” Vahle said. “According to data from Marketplace Pulse, China represents more than 50% of active sellers on Amazon.es, which is more than the other EU-5 countries.”. Alibaba also partnered with El Corte Inglés, one of the largest retailers in Spain, to add its products to AliExpress's marketplace.

The pandemic boosted retail ecommerce sales across the world and fueled double-digit gains in France and Germany in 2020. This year, both countries will see single-digit growth, as physical retail begins to recover.

We include the following consumer categories in our definition of retail ecommerce sales:.

To help speed up delivery times, the company announced in October 2020 that it would charter three weekly flights from China. This will ensure that all orders placed will be delivered within 30 days.

WeChat in China and Line in Japan have crossed the chasm to include checkout integration within messaging and social media services. In February, Facebook Shop rolled out to users in Canada and the UK, the feature’s first geographic expansion since it launched in the US in May 2020.

Retail ecommerce sales from November to December will decrease as a percentage of Q4 2020 sales, from 75.2% last year to 70.7% this year. The impact of the lockdown earlier in the year will be even more pronounced.

We now forecast retail ecommerce sales to grow 14.7% this year (vs. 8.9% in our December forecast), while nonecommerce retail’s decline is expected to accelerate—down 16.0% this year vs. a marginal 0.9% drop in our previous forecast.