AKIT: Russians’ 2022 spending on e-shopping rise 30% to 5 tln rbl

MOSCOW, Feb 15 (PRIME) -- Russians’ spending on the purchases on the Internet increased by 30% in 2022 to 4.98 trillion rubles, Russian Online Retail Association (AKIT) said on Wednesday in a statement.

“The share of e-commerce in the total volume of retail sales amounts to 11.6%. The share is much higher in non-grocery retail than in grocery, 19.9% and 3.1%, respectively,” AKIT said.

National retailers dominated with 4.81 trillion rubles, while the share of cross-border trade plunged to 3.6% from 13%.

“Almost 5 trillion rubles is an impressive sum, however, we understand it is far from being a limit for e-commerce,” the association’s President Artyom Sokolov said.

“In the past years a whole range of not always positive factors propelled progress further, but we are sure that in their absence the 2023 growth may reach 25–30%, which is a steady trend already.”

(73.8645 rubles – U.S. $1)

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