New shopping report shows massive sales growth around Boxing Day for Canadian shoppers

Customer relationship management experts Salesforce have published their 2020 Holiday Shopping Report, which unveils a new look at the growth of ecommerce in Canada Ecommerce holiday shopping revenue grew 70% from the same time last year, with 123% growth for the pre-Christmas period. Boxing Day saw online shopping sales rise 2170% on 2019, with 63%…

Google launches native ads for web story app

Google has announced that its multimedia story-telling format Web Stories is an inner advertising function similar to the company’s global ads system Web Stories, which was originally named AMP Stories, struggled to meet popularity expectations at first and has taken time to grow. Before the only way to advertise with the format was to use…

Grocery chains continue to expand online shopping and delivery for 2021

Sobeys, Metro and Loblaws, who make up 60% of Canada’s supermarket industry have all announced further moves towards catering to online grocery shopping in 2021 Sarah Joyce, senior vice-president of ecommerce at Sobeys said “We are seeing growth rates today that we expected to see three or four years from now” Sobeys, who opened a…

Canada Post delivered a million parcels a day for 181 consecutive days as online sale rise leads to new records

Canada Post has revealed a series of statistics from 2020, as the ecommerce boom brings record levels of online deliveries From mid-April until the end of the year, the parcel service delivered over 1 million packages a day. In the final 2 weeks before Christmas, 20 million were delivered, 2.4 million on Monday 21st alone,…