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[New] By 2024, the World Health Organization will identify online shopping as an addictive disorder, as millions abuse digital commerce and encounter financial stress.
Non-alcoholic beverages are popping up everywhere from shops to world-famous bars - many using what Whole Foods call 'faux spirits', a trend which is predicted to surge even more next year.
With Amazon adding incentives for Prime members to shop at Whole Foods, and Walmart's prevailing strength in online grocery, omnichannel grocery deals will play an even bigger role this year.
Coming early next year, schuh will become the first UK retailer to integrate Klarna's Instant Buy button, allowing shoppers to purchase seamlessly at any point of the purchase funnel.
Though consumers have historically done more holiday shopping in stores than online, this year, it's changing: For the first time, shoppers will spend more time online (54 percent) than in stores (46 percent).
UK retailers should expect a record Black Friday this year and shoppers plan to cut back on non-essential Christmas expenditure.
Further expansion and progression of e-commerce is vast, with figures computing that by the year 2021, roughly 93 percent of UK internet users are expected to partake in online shopping, the highest online shopping penetration rate across Europe.
Online shoppers in India are expected to reach 220 million by 2025.
mcommerce sales are expected to surpass ecommerce sales this year.
The trend of giving and receiving gift cards is expected to continue as online shopping and digital gift cards become even more popular.
Shoppers are expected to splash a whopping £4.3bn this year on gadgets, clothes and toys - but more than two-thirds of sales will be made online.
Retailers have fretted that another round of import of tariffs in mid-December could slow consumer spending this year, which has helped support the U.S. economic engine against global growth headwinds.
Retailers should be pleased with projections for this year's holiday shopping season, especially online-Deloitte' s annual analysis predicts a 14% to 18% percent jump over last year, with total ecommerce sales rising to $144 billion.
The rates burden on retailers is accelerating store closures, job losses and declining high streets and hindering the industry's ability to invest in the stores of the future and in new technology which will benefit UK shoppers.
While M&S is rapidly losing sales and closing shops, Primark is expected to account for £1 out of every £14 spent on clothing in the UK this year.
Online sales are predicted to grow to $765 billion in the next 3 years.
Apple Pay is expected to be the most popular mobile payment method for U.S. shoppers by year's end, with 30.3 million U.S. users, compared with 25.2 million for the popular Starbucks payment app.
In China, 600 million people will use their phones to make mobile payments as of the start of 2019, about 550 million people will regularly use their smartphones to shop online, and about 200 million people will use bikesharing services.
When global e-commerce sales are expected to break £2.2 trillion in 2019 and 51% of UK consumers prefer online shopping over going to physical storefronts, it's a given that more vape retailers will offer their products over the internet this year.
U.S. shoppers will spend a total of $8.8 billion this year on Halloween, slightly down from last year's $9 billion.
About 81% of smartphone users in China will use mobile payments this year, compared to just 27% in the U.S.
In the UK grocery sector, the rise of online sales is particularly significant, with transactions more than doubling between 2010 and 2016, and total value rising to a forecasted £196.9 billion in 2021.
A 2017 study from Nasdaq on e-commerce and online shopping showed that around 22% of the world's population purchases online, and that by 2040, e-commerce will account for 95% of all purchases.

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Last updated: 26 January 2020