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60 Stats & Trends That Will Define The Future of E-Commerce (Infographic)

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Electronic shopping was introduced back in 1979 when English inventor Michael Aldrich connected a modified TV to a transaction-processing computer via telephone line and opened the information systems for secure data transmission. This technology became the foundation on which the eCommerce as we know it was built. Today, eCommerce is used on a daily basis and living without it seems just complicated and inconvenient. The new technologies and innovations are continuously changing and exponentially improving the user experience and safety which, on the other hand, results in staggering eCommerce growth.

60 Stats & Trends That Will Define The Future of E-Commerce (Infographic)

by Pieter Vorster | Aug 29, 2018 | News and Events, Resources

We at Pod Creative have been working with a few clients that own and manage e-commerce stores. In our experience, the learning curve is steep when there is so much riding on the performance of your online activity. We encourage you to read through the infographic below as It helps to keep things in perspective.

Pieter Vorster

Trying To Keep Up With The Current Ecommerce Trends

The ecommerce industry is showing no signs of slowing down.

Probably spurred by hopes of competing with brick and mortar shops that currently rule the market, ecommerce displays a strong willingness to align with technological advancements of our day and age. And, judging by the statistics, this readiness to mesh with the new technologies seems to be working great for the e-market.

In 2017, retail ecommerce sales on a global level amounted to just over $2.3 trillion. According to the infographic by

Subscriptionly, the number is projected to grow to $4.88 trillion by 2021.

If this estimate turns out to be true, the market share for ecommerce will be far from marginal when compared to brick and mortar shops.

What awaits ecommerce down the line will have a major impact on our everyday life as its implementation could instigate some radical changes going forward. Defining precisely what these changes are could be is a hard feat. However, we can analyze the current state of the e-market and try to use the data to determine what future has in store for ecommerce.

The following infographic manages to do exactly that.

It examines 60 interesting trends projected to have a direct impact on the future of ecommerce. By analyzing the current state of the industry, the infographic plunges the readers directly into the ecommerce machinery, allowing them to take a sneak peek into what they can expect to see from electronic payments down the line.

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