Interesting and Mind-Blowing Facts About Online Shopping

Year 1995 is considered to be a watershed for online shopping because two most successful shopping websites i.e Amazon and eBay were launched in 1995 and change the people's perception about viability of retail e-commerce

Amazon and eBay are considered to be the initial online retail stores, but the first ever online shopping site that was launched on WWW (World Wide Web) was Pizza Hut in 1994

The best seller product on the eCommerce sites worldwide is Books

The online shopping retail sales are predicted to grow to $370 billion in 2017, up from $231 billion in 2012

Overall satisfaction with online shopping is high at 83%. However, it drops below 50% when shoppers were asked about specified time of day to delivery of purchase, flexibility to reroute packages

Amazon.com is the major online seller in Europe, Canada and US. However, Rakuten Ichiba from Japan dramatically outsells Amazon in Japan

Online shopping is more popular in younger and middle aged user. Shoppers aged between 35-44 make 29% of online shopping. 77% men and 68% women shop during lunch hour

The iTunes Store is the world’s most successful online music sales website. It accounts for 70 percent of all online digital music sales, and in fact was the first site to demonstrate the feasibility of the online music enterprise

Expedia is the first major site for full-service travel arrangements on the web

In India, men form the majority among online customers in India. Also, there is a steady growth of eCommerce sites in India along with the deals and coupons sites that offers huge discounts from the best stores like Baggout