Compared to a year ago, ecommerce is up 15%, according to new data from comScore. The report indicates consumers spent $43.2 billion in online purchases last quarter, meaning it’s the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. It also found 42% of ecommerce purchases included free shipping, a fact that may be contributing to shoppers’ willingness to buy online.
Some reports have predicted ecommerce will be a nearly $300-billion industry in the United States by 2015. With so many consumers moving their shopping transactions to the web, it’s hard to ignore that more companies are changing the way they sell their products, and the way consumers shop. Below are five companies leading big changes in the shopping scene.
1. Storenvy
Founded in 2008, Storenvy empowers sellers across the spectrum — ranging from hobbyists to major retailers — to easily launch and run independent, fully customizable online stores. At the same time, by lacing together thousands of stores into a marketplace, the startup offers consumers a new kind of shopping experience. By offering both the platform for sellers and the marketplace for shoppers, Storenvy is quite different from competitors like Shopify and Etsy, which offer only one or the other....2. Augment
3. Threadflip
4. Knotstandard
5. The Fancy
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