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Shoppers expected to spend $4.2 tln online in 2021, squeezing supply chain

In 2021, all global shoppers are expected to buy 20% more online than the last year. This causes increased pressure over thew supply chain as they struggle to keep up with a surge in demand. From Home Depot to Peloton, major retailers and vendors are under pressure from high transportation and storage costs for expensive-to-ship items like appliances, furniture and exercise equipment that are in high demand.

Over the past year, even big stores like Walmart, Target and Amazon.com ran out of essential products that are easy to buy in bulk with one click, but hard to keep stocked. Driven by demand in the United States, China and Britain, ecommerce sales will total an estimated $4.2 trillion this year versus $3.5 billion in 2020.

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$876 billion in the first quarter of this year, were for the online sale of toys and video games to furniture. Due to the pandemic situation many retailers have kept many physical stores shut while investing heavily in online platforms. 65% of stores in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were open or operating on reduced hours since last month. At the same time digital sales in its most recent quarter rose 60%.

Even after the lockdown was over, many people still rely upon the online platforms for ordering things. Retailers and vendors including Walmart, Kraft Heinz and Mondelez prediction patterns are echoed by the analysts’ reports. This in turn is a heavy loss for companies which rely only upon physical stores, which already faces struggle due to the online platforms.

Following President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, online sales surged 39% to about $200 billion in the first quarter, with growth spiking in the three weeks, in America. But not all places adopt this, especially in countries like Japan, there is only fewer people to shop online. This leads to only moderate ecommerce sales.

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