My way of coming up with the number of ecommerce websites was to sum up the publicly advertised number of stores from the top 10 most used ecommerce platforms. (blog.rjmetrics.com)
While next year might still bring a considerable number of store closures, at least two household name chains will contribute to new store openings. (nreionline.com)
A consideration is that you don't have to go into large numbers of stores. (entrepreneur.com)