Welcome to the 95th Week in eCommerce Data, where Friday begins with a dose of ecommerce data. In this week’s roundup, we focus on rising ecommerce prices, big platform valuations, and millennial attitudes. Plus, other ecommerce news from elsewhere!
Key ecommerce data
$11 more
consumers spent on groceries in the last month compared to the previous month, despite the amount of people using ecommerce dropping by 1% to 88%.
$45.6 billion
the current valuation of the buy now, pay later platform Klarna, which has just introduced a virtual shopping tool, letting users interact with in-store experts.
38% of millennials
have used a mobile wallet to pay for products in the last month, compared to just 22% of baby boomers.
$38.8 million
the amount raised by the Japanese startup, Zeals, a chat commerce platform that lets businesses communicate with their customers via chat.
$56 million
the amount raised by the European ecommerce logistics and fulfillment network platform Byrd, which is setting itself up as an alternative to Amazon.
$120 billion
the forecasted value of the sneaker industry by 2026, which is dominated by Footlocker in terms of physical stores yet digitally is currently wide open to competition.
47% of Univar customers
in the US are now registered on their ecommerce channel, as the chemical distributor posted a 173% increase in Q1 sales.
9% fall
in ecommerce fashion sales in Germany since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
