U.S. consumers spent more online this holiday season than they ever have before, according to a new report from Mastercard. From a report: Digging into the report, Reuters found e-commerce sales contributed 14.6 percent of total retail and were up 18.8 percent from 2018. This is despite a later Thanksgiving, which cut six days from the festive shopping window. Physical retailers are under increasing pressure from Amazon, which continues to offer ever more attractive ways to shop from the sofa, including same-day delivery in some cities and free returns on an ever-widening catalog of goods. The online retailer is so aggressive in its efforts to speed up delivery, in fact, it’s taking a worrying toll on those making the deliveries.
of this story at Slashdot.
Source:: Slashdot