Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the supply of e-commerce activitie 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 the supply of their business activities. More than 40 percent of sites were already experiencing supply difficulties. Almost as many (36 percent) were preparing for it.