Online Grocery Shopping

Here is some insighful data about consumers and online grocery shopping. Coresight Research released its “US Online Grocery Survey 2019”, finding that 36.8 % of United States consumers bought groceries online over the year, which is a jump of 23.1 percent from 2018 survey. This is an increase of roughly 35 million more consumers buying groceries online. When […]

Online Spending: Show Me the Money

Online spending represented 16.0% of total retail sales for the year, according to the United States Commerce Department retail data. Amazon.com accounted for more than 1/3 of all ecommerce in the United States.Consumers spent $601.75 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2019, up 14.9% from $523.64 billion the prior year. That was a higher growth rate than 2018, […]

Facebook Messenger Stats for Ecommerce Sellers

Here are some interesting stats about Facebook messengers and why Ecommerce sellers need to pay close attention to them. Did you know that Facebook is the most popular mobile app? Well, do you know what is the second most popular app? Facebook messenger. There are 1.3 billion people / month who are actively using their Facebook Messenger. Facebook […]

Product Reviews and Ratings

56% of online consumers say they always look at ratings and reviews and usually base their purchases on them. 41% say they sometimes look at reviews and only 3% say they never look at reviews. These stats are provided by a Digital Commerce 360/Bizrate Insights consumer survey. So to put it in other words, online sellers should pay […]