US online transactions could cross the trillion-dollar mark for the first time ever in 2022, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index, a real-time barometer of the digital economy by Adobe Analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adobe notes that within the 12-month pandemic period from March 2020 to February 2021, a total of $844 billion was spent online, a 20% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Future growth is expected to build off of this gain, with 2021 achieving between $850 billion and $930 billion in online sales, and 2022 expected to be the first trillion-dollar year for e-commerce, the company predicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adobe Analytics data indicates that the first two months (January-February) of 2021 saw consumers spend $121 billion online, a 34% percent growth year over year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Retailers also posted three times as many \u201cout of stock\u201d messages in July 2020, compared to the pre-pandemic period, while \u201cout of stock\u201d messages in January 2021 were at four times pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
US online transactions could cross the trillion-dollar mark for the first time ever in 2022, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index, a real-time barometer of the digital economy by Adobe Analytics. Adobe notes that within the 12-month pandemic period from March 2020 to February 2021, a total of $844 billion was spent online, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n