Ecommerce: The Path Forward
A Shopping Path Through the Pandemic
- More than one recent Media Group Online report has suggested our lives during the first 8+ weeks of the pandemic (from early March into May) would have been entirely different ndash; and more chaotic and possibly dangerous ndash; without ecommerce.
- The surge in shopping was unprecedented and caused many problems for online retailers. Nonetheless, both the biggest online retailers and even some small, local stores seemed to respond and recover relatively quickly.
- Accurate forecasting of the general economy and the retail sector, including ecommerce, has been difficult during this crisis. The focus of this Special Report from Media Group Online is to describe how the pandemic has affected ecommerce and its ldquo;path forward. rdquo;