The impact of COVID19 on eCommerce in the European market
By Menelaos Vergis
The platform ecomcovid19.com gathers and analyzes data from over 1200 e-shops in the European market for the sole purpose to help all eCommerce entities make better decisions during this period.
The data shows that eCommerce has a stable sales increase by comparing the weeks of the last 3 years, the health crisis hasn't negatively affected the market.
Regardless of the shown stability, there are some significant changes in some categories.
The health product sales have been increased the most (+213.31 %), followed by building materials (112.38 %) and children's goods (100 %).
On the other hand, Office, Workshop, Warehouse segment has a big drop in sales reaching -40 %. Garden and Clothes and Fashion continue to have increased sales but the rate compared to the previous year is much lower.
