Online Shopping Boom

I was predicting that online shopping would boom years ago, that it would follow the same exponential growth as other Internet use. I was WRONG. In fact after the Dot Com Bomb of a few years ago I even feared it could disappear! Only a few Ecommerce sites survived that extinction event. Amazon was one. Even last Xmas many sniffed that E-commerce was just one percent of sales. The mood has changed completely in 12 months. E-Commerce had a 25% year on year growth in the USA and 50% in the UK, while bricks and mortar stores knew timid or even negative growth. In the UK growth from 2000 to 2005 was 26 FOLD!!