The e-commerce sector has drastically changed business models, leading to changing dynamics for the advertising industry.
The future of shopping is on the internet. Branches are orphaned or become showrooms.
In today's world, online shopping has become indispensable. Customers and partners carry out a large number of transactions via the internet every day.
According to Gerrit Heinemann, the German expert on digital trade, digitalisation has only just begun. The next 2 to 3 years would change retail even more than the last 15 years.
Webshops are also becoming more and more interesting for investors. For the full year 2012, a turnover volume of EUR 36.5 billion was achieved for the entire interactive trade and EUR 21.7 billion for e-commerce.
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