Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on e-commerce activities in France in 2020
The e-commerce business has been on the rise in the past years, due to the gradual digitization of every day activities. Many marketers have forecasted the growth of e-commerce, and with the coronavirus outbreak, issues with proximity shopping have led to a strong acceleration of that said development. Thus, the source had asked online retailers as well as pure players in France in March 2020, if the lockdown measures as well as the new hygiene codes had affected their business. Almost 70 percent of e-merchants reported a felt effect.