
This Week in eCommerce Data: March 26th, 2021
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- This Week in eCommerce Data

Welcome to the 43rd Week in eCommerce Data, where Friday begins with a dose of ecommerce data. In this week’s roundup, we forecast Easter ecommerce, fashion goods returns. Plus other ecom news elsewhere!
Key ecommerce data
1/4
of all fashion goods bought online are returned, in contrast to 1/10 that is bought in-store, as ecommerce providers look to handle the huge amount of returns.
$179.70
the average expected Easter spending this year, the highest number on record.
80,000 merchants
the number of sellers on Nuvemshop, Latin America’s reincarnation of Shopify, across Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico – up from 20,000 at the start of 2020.
1st purchase post-pandemic
when asked which products they are set to buy first, shoppers’ most popular response was makeup (40%).
67% higher than 2020
the rise of curbside pickup is set to stick despite a slowdown since the holiday season.
40% growth
in digital gift cards during the holiday season.
17% of shoppers
made their first ever ecommerce order of groceries during 2020.
14% of businesses
use artificial intelligence to boost their marketing strategies, despite the big advantages tagged to AI.