One E-commerce per Minute

Brazil has now had 107,000 new e-commerces since the beginning of social isolation in March. In the period, the country opened more than one online store per minute. The data are from a survey made by the Brazilian Association of Electronic Commerce (ABComm) between March 23 and May 31. Before the quarantine, the average opening of stores on the Internet was 10,000 stores per month. In the ranking of new sites, the sectors that led the opening were fashion, food and services. According to the entity, by the end of this year, the expectation was that e-commerce would gain 3 million customers, but the channel received 2 million new consumers only in quarantine. The movement increased online sales by 40% in the period.