Online shopping: Do you shop on the internet?
- September 27, 2010 11:18 AM |
- By POV
Canadians ordered $15.1 billion worth of goods and services on the internet last year, up from $12.8 billion in 2007.
Statistics Canada attributed the increase to a rise in the number of online shoppers and a higher volume of orders.
The agency said 39 per cent of Canadians aged 16 and over used the internet to place more than 95 million orders in 2009 -- up from 32 per cent and 70 million orders in 2007, when the survey was last conducted.
The most common types of online orders continued to be travel services; entertainment products such as concert tickets; books and magazines; and clothing, jewelry and accessories.
Do you shop online? If so, what sorts of products do you purchase on the internet?
(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' responses.)
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