Majority of Global Consumers Shop Cross Border
By Company-Issued Press Release
EcommerceBytes.com
October 13, 2016
Pitney Bowes, a global technology leader providing innovative products and solutions powering anywhere-to-everywhere commerce, announced the results of the third annual Pitney Bowes Global Online Shopping Survey, which finds that cross-border ecommerce has become prevalent among consumers around the world.
It's no surprise that consumers frequently make domestic online purchases (94%), however more than two-thirds (66%) of consumers that have ever made a domestic online purchase have also made an online purchase from another country in the past year. Singapore (89%), Australia (86%) and Hong Kong (85%) have the highest number of cross-border shoppers, while countries like Japan (34%) and the U.S. (45%) are still growing in cross-border confidence.
http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y16/m10/i13/s03
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