Online retail sales grew even faster, lifting 34.2 % to 4.9 trillion yuan over the same period.
It's big business: Global
online retail sales grew by 20 percent from $ 1.9 trillion to $ 2.3 trillion in 2015, according to a 2016 Ecommerce Foundation report.
Not exact matches
By 2018, Chinese consumers are expected to spend $ 1.2 trillion
online on
retail items, according to Forrester Research, with such
sales growing more than 20 percent by 2016, according to a Nielsen Harris poll conducted in June.
Alibaba will most likely play a key role in the shift to a consumer - based economy, as 9 % of all
retail sales are down
online, according to Alibaba, and Ma expects that to
grow.
Retail giant Gap may have suffered declining
sales during the recession, but immune to that drop was its
online - only women's activewear brand, Athleta, which
grew by 10 %.
The
retailer had set the objective to
grow its in - store
sales and brand metrics during the holidays, and turned to in - store and
online purchase records, financial data from its branded credit cards, as well as partner data.
The discount
retailer on Wednesday lowered its profit forecast for the year after reporting comparable
sales fell 1.3 % in November and December, as big gains in its
online business were dwarfed by stiff price competition and
growing difficulty in getting shoppers into stores.
Online sales are
growing rapidly — up 15 % in the most recent quarter compared to 4 % for total
retail sales.
It also gives the
retailer additional expertise in e-commerce at a time when
growing online sales is critical amid an intense rivalry with Amazon.
Other
retailers with low e-commerce-to-
sales percentages — and potential to
grow online sales further — include Target with 3.4 percent, Walgreen's with 1.7 percent and Sears Holdings Corp. with 7.9 percent.
Amazon's pure e-commerce revenue represents 74.1 percent of total
sales while number - two Wal - Mart has e-commerce revenue of just 2.8 percent of its total
sales — which indicates that the world's largest
retailer has plenty of room to
grow online.
Understanding and encouraging overseas consumers is essential for
retailers looking to
grow online sales and expand internationally.
With
online wine
sales in Australia
growing from 6 per cent in 2011 to 11 per cent in 2016 and global internet
retailing value expected to increase by 13 per cent in 2018 (Euromonitor International), it is important not to ignore this
sales channel.
State lawmakers had gotten involved in the talks as well, writing a letter to the company urging the
retailer to consider the impact of
growing online sales to workers in their brick - and - mortar stores.
Online retail sales for this year have
grown even more at a rate of approximately 12 %.
Right now, brick - and - mortar stores still have an overall majority over
online retailers, but e-book
sales are
growing (although slowly) and
online sales of new printed books continues to increase.
Moving forward, our top priorities are
growing bookstore and
online sales, reducing
Retail and NOOK expenses and
growing our Membership base.»
Outlook «As we look ahead to fiscal 2017 and beyond, we are focusing on executing a number of initiatives to
grow bookstore and
online sales, reduce
Retail and NOOK expenses and
grow our Membership base,» said Ron Boire, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc..
Brent: You're right, as brick and mortar
retail sales stagnate or even decline,
online book
sales have been
growing consistently for a decade.
There might be something to this because
online sales grew faster in 2016 than they had in the past three years and account for 11.7 % of overall
retail sales.
As of 2012,
online retailers, not brick - and - mortar stores, were responsible for nearly half of print book
sales, a percentage that is steadily
growing.
As the «bought
online» share
grows, more and more genres and authors will find that giving up the
retail sale in favor of a bigger share of the revenue per
sale online is to their financial benefit.
Following the first eBook conference of ASEAN countries, the community of Asian readers seems to
grow by leaps and bounds when the combined
sales statistics revealed how the readers increasingly accepted the digital book format and how local
online retailers all share success stories everywhere in the neighboring region.
The Kindle is doing very well in the UK, and UK - based
online retailer The Books Depository saw its
sales grow 70 % in the second half of the year.
Many manga publishers and
retailers who used to believe that scanlations actually attracted new readers, now blame the
sales decline on the rise of giant for - profit scanlation sites that have allowed a new generation of fans to
grow up reading manga for free
online.
Amazon has been good for all authors, best - selling and non, self - pub and partner pub, because, for a few, A) Amazon helped replace part of the wholesale market, which shrank in the 1990's, and really helped open up
online book - selling; B) Amazon has increased international publishing by expanding into numerous countries, allowing more international authors to hit the big English markets, English authors to hit new markets and transnational publishers to do multi-country launches more easily; C) by launching the Kindle, Amazon juiced the small e-book
retail industry into a much larger, fast -
growing market, which helped replace mass market wholesale
sales, etc..
On the contrary,
online retail sales in India are predicted to
grow to $ 76B in 2021 yet they will still trail behind the expected growth rate of China to reach $ 650B in 2020.
Despite the fact that most Indian customers do not have a credit card to shop
online and the country's infrastructure is somewhat developing,
online retail sales are expected to
grow to $ 76B in in the next 8 years.
Hyman states that «
online has caused tremendous
retail disruption» and though 90 % of US
sales still remain in brick - and - mortar
retail, the 10 % of
sales in
online retailing is expected to
grow.
Our joint health products today are benefiting customers the world over-thanks to
online sales and a
growing network of
retail outlets, catalog - order companies and animal health practitioners.
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sales annually * Created Distribution
Sales and Marketing Programs that adopted by all regions throughout North America for Thomas & Betts * Increased monthly sales in territory from $ 16,000 to $ 125,000 within first year at Powell Electronics * Developed and implemented new electromechanical product sales and
Sales and Marketing Programs that adopted by all regions throughout North America for Thomas & Betts * Increased monthly
sales in territory from $ 16,000 to $ 125,000 within first year at Powell Electronics * Developed and implemented new electromechanical product sales and
sales in territory from $ 16,000 to $ 125,000 within first year at Powell Electronics * Developed and implemented new electromechanical product
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retail sales increased 4 percent in 2016 to $ 658 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, with online sales growing faster than forecast at 12.6 pe
retail sales increased 4 percent in 2016 to $ 658 billion, according to the National
Retail Federation, with online sales growing faster than forecast at 12.6 pe
Retail Federation, with
online sales growing faster than forecast at 12.6 percent.