subject: U.S. E-commerce Sales Continues To Grow Steadily Last Year [print this page] U.S. E-commerce Sales Continues To Grow Steadily Last Year
On February 28, the American high-tech market research firm Forrester Research released the report that the U.S. e-commerce sales in 2010 increased by 12.6% to 176 billion U.S. dollars. At the same time, the research firm also predicted that in the next 5 years, the annual sales growth rate will remain around 10%, and thus the United States e-commerce sales in 2015 is expected to reach 279 billion U.S. dollars.
Forrester Research's report also said that in 2010 the growth rate exceed the rate in 2009 (11%). The report also pointed out, that the economic situation improves, that the number of consumers shopping first online increases, and that each consumer increases their online shopping investments are the major factors to achieve substantial growth of 2010 e-commerce sales in the United States.
The report also said that as more and more consumers begin to spend more time and money on online shopping from the real store, so in the next five years, the U.S. e-commerce will continue to grow. In addition, with the growth of using smart phones and tablet PCs, many group buy sites, such as Groupon will also promote more e-commerce transactions.All these will further stimulate the growth of e-commerce in U.S.
However, Forrester Research's report also noted that Internet sales in the U.S. retail market is still only a smaller part. For example, in 2010, the Internet sales account is only about 8% of entire U.S. retail revenues. Forrester Research expects that this year the share of U.S. Internet retail sales will be refurbished and reach 9%, and in 2015 it is expected to increase to around 11%.
In view of Forrester Research, this growth trend of e-commerce sales may not be good news in terms of real store, not only because more and more consumers using online shopping, but also some consumers will use the smart phones to do better internet transactions.
In this regard, the CEO of ePathChina released his comments that some real stores should carefully consider the long term impact of e-commerce's growth, and think about how to use multi-channel innovations to avoid the impact e-commerce.
As one reputable and reliable B2C online shop,ePathChina.com is very glad to see the continuing and steady growth of e-commerce in U.S. Under the good environment that more and more people are optimistic with online shopping, certainly, epathchina.com (http://www.epathchina.com) will not refuse the great opportunity. Although there is much increasing competition in the field of e-commerce, ePathChina.com will as usual strive for supplying fantastic ,high-quality and cheap china electronics for the old and new consumers all over the world.
