The steady rise of online retail sales should have surprised no one. As Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, back in 2000, less than 1% of retail sales came from e-commerce. However, online sales have climbed each and every year since then, even through the Great Recession. By 2009, e-commerce made up about 4.0% of total retail sales, and today the latest number we have is 8.3%.

Here’s another knowledge bomb: it’s going to keep growing for the foreseeable future. Huge surprise, right?…

 

Source: Visualizing America’s Retail Apocalypse | Zero Hedge