{"id":275,"date":"2010-09-21T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/?p=275"},"modified":"2013-03-26T04:20:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:20:35","slug":"growth-in-online-retail-sales-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/2010\/09\/growth-in-online-retail-sales-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrester Forecast Survey Predicts Growth in Online Retail Sales by 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the Forrester Research 5 year prediction, there will be 10 percent compound annual growth rate through 2014 in e-commerce sales in US. It also predicted online retail sales in the US. The online retail sales would be around $250 billion which will increase from $155 billion in 2009. In 2008, the online retail sales increased by 11 percent when compared to 2.5 percent of all retail sales. The other predictions are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li> By 2014, 8 percent of the e-commerce sales will be represented by all retail sales in the US which will be an increase of 6 percent in 2009.<\/li>\n<li> Around 154 million people in US did online shopping which is 67 percent of the online population. There was a 4 percent increase when compared to 2008 online shopping.<\/li>\n<li> In 2009, $67.6 billion was spent on purchasing computers, apparel, and consumer electronics which represent more than 44 percent of online sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the Forrester Research 5 year prediction, there will be 10 percent compound annual growth rate through 2014 in e-commerce sales in US. It also predicted online retail sales in the US. The online retail sales would be around $250 billion which will increase from $155 billion in 2009. In 2008, the online retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-1","tag-online-retailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/major-new-developments.com\/major-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}