{"id":3145,"date":"2017-03-06T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2017-03-07T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:26:26","slug":"why-canadas-e-commerce-market-is-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/why-canadas-e-commerce-market-is-booming\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Canada\u2019s e-commerce market is booming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For some time, Canada has lagged behind other countries in e-commerce, largely due to the challenge of being able to reach a small population spread over a huge land mass, where many communities are isolated and difficult to ship to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Canada has also been much slower than other countries to adopt new technologies, with the 2015 CIRA Internet Factbook reporting that over<\/span> just 42.3 per cent of small businesses in Canada had a website, compared with 91.4 per cent of large companies<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The fact that<\/span> only 13% of Canadian businesses were selling online in 2013<\/span><\/a> meant that Canadian businesses struggled to keep up with the growing appetites of Canadian online consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n

But e-commerce in Canada is quickly changing as more and more online retailers begin to invest in digital. According to eMarketer\u2019s latest forecast,<\/span> e-commerce will account for 10% of total retail sales in Canada by 2020<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Canada has lagged behind the US and UK in e-commerce, it is now catching up as double-digit annual gains drive what growth there is in Canada\u2019s retail sector,\u201d said analyst Paul Briggs, author of the eMarketer report.<\/span><\/p>\n

Businesses in Canada are beginning to reimagine how consumers shop for products and services, with an increasing number of e-commerce sites using technologies like click and collect, where shoppers order online and pick up their goods at a time convenient for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on how the e-commerce market is booming in Canada,<\/b> check out the latest CIRA Internet Factbook<\/b><\/a>. <\/b><\/p>\n

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For some time, Canada has lagged behind other countries in e-commerce, largely due to the challenge of being able to reach a small population spread over a huge land mass, where many communities are isolated and difficult to ship to.\u00a0 Canada has also been much slower than other countries to adopt new technologies, with the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":3146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,586],"tags":[709,708,682,696,683,380],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-search-engine-optimization","category-web-development","tag-digital-e-commerce","tag-digital-technology","tag-e-commerce","tag-e-commerce-site","tag-e-commerce-store","tag-online-shopping"],"modified_by":"Emma Gibbins","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_94364523.jpeg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}