10.1007%2Fs11129-007-9025-5&rft.externalDBID=QMKE&rft. E-Commerce: The Internet Grocery Market Market Report - 2009.
Online retailers report strong growth. A quiet revolution is taking place on the internet despite the recent demise of several dot.com ventures, according to the online retailing industry in the UK.
"The internet has continued to be a massive growth area for us despite a downward trend in general activity elsewhere resulting from 11 September," said the Automobile Association's head of e-commerce, Paul Richards. "TheAA.com has beaten 2001 targets, especially in insurance and motor related activity," he said. "The internet penetration of direct sales is still increasing at a strong rate," agreed the managing director of the online clothes retailer Boden, Julian Granville. "Over 22% of sales were taken on the internet in February, up from 18% of sales last year. " Fast growth.
E-Retail: Top 10 Biggest Winners and Losers - All retailers rely heavily on the holiday season to boost their sales - with more and more of these sales now taking place online.
According to a recent report by Internet Retailer, publicly traded companies saw their online sales grow by a collective 21% in the 3rd quarter. Below is a list of the Top 10 biggest winners and losers so far this holiday season in terms of attracting traffic to their Web sites. We looked at traffic to their sites for Thanksgiving week (2007) through the first 2 weeks of December, comparing data from 2007 and 2008.
We then ranked the sites that have seen the greatest % increase and decrease in traffic during this same time period. Receive future articles by this author via email: