Grocery e-commerce sales worldwide before and after COVID-19

Published by Daniela Coppola, Jul 7, 2021
Before the coronavirus pandemic, only seven percent of grocery retail sales involved e-commerce channels. During the peak of the emergency, the e-commerce share of grocery retail grew to ten percent, while a study showed that online shopping of grocery products is here to stay. Indeed, the current share of global e-commerce penetration was valued at nine percent.

Global development of e-commerce shares of grocery stores before and after the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

CharacteristicShare of e-commerce as a proportion of total grocery retail
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Statistic: Global development of e-commerce shares of grocery stores before and after the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

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Release date

April 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

January 31, 2021

Supplementary notes

The source defines the "peak" period as March-April 2020.

The source adds the following information: "Figure based on a proprietary analysis by the Mastercard Economics Institute that modeled the global share of retail e-commerce across all payment types, drawing on sales activity within the Mastercard network comparing 2020 vs 2019."

The source did not provide an exact date of release for the data. In this statistic, date of access is used in lieu of date of release.

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