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 […]

What are Popular Stay-at-Home Activities

New consumer survey from Comscore has revealed the list of the most popular stay-at-home activities during COVID-19 quarantine. I wanted to share about the activities that have a significant surge in younger age group (18 to 34 years old). While you may guess that watching TV and playing video games is among them, I wanted to mentioned the […]

Personalization in Ecommerce

Let’s talk about personalization is ecommerce. Personalization can be tricky. Some people freak out by the fact of how much advertisers “know” about them and their internet searches. Some find it very useful. But no matter how you feel about it, personalization is the key to ecommerce success. The truth is: Shoppers hate irrelevant content. 74% of consumers […]

Instagram and Ecommerce Data

Unless you have been living under the rock, you probably have heard of photo and video sharing app Instagram which was aquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012. And you probably don’t need me to tell you that Instagram is not just for sharing pictures of avocado toasts and beautiful ocean sunsets. Although both of those Are […]

From Googling to Buying

The average amount of time between a Google product search and a purchase is 20 days and about 1/3rd of Google product searches turn into transactions within 5 days. This is according to Jumpshot’s Competitive State of eCommerce Marketplaces Q2 2018 Data report.

Ecommerce Shopping by Generations

Here is some interesting data on which age groups prefer to shop online. This is breakdown on ecommerce shopping by buyers age groups According to Statista: 67% of Millenials (or so called Generation Y) who were born from 1979 to year 2000, prefer to shop online56% of Generation X (born in 60s and 70s) prefer to shop online41% […]