Welcome to the twenty-sixth Week in eCommerce Data, where Friday begins with a dose of ecommerce data. In this week’s roundup, Walmart scales down despite boosts in sales, Shopify spreads across the world. Plus other ecom news elsewhere!

Key ecommerce data

18 years

after Walmart entered the Japanese market the supermarket decided to sell its operations in the Far East country, in order to concentrate on ecommerce.

79%

the jump in sales of Walmart during the third quarter.

3.3% drop

in the sales of online mattress retailer Casper during the third quarter, representing $123.5 million, largely due to supply chain bottlenecks.

1.49 million

businesses on Shopify around the world, with the vast majority (74%) hosted in the US, followed by the UK (3.9%).

155%

rise in online sales of Target, crushing estimates and diving deep with curbside pickup capabilities.

106%

 rise in the online sales of Lowe’s, as well as total retail sales of 30%.

2021

the year that HomeGoods plans to finally open up an ecommerce store due to suffering from sustained lagging in physical sales this year.