An e-Commerce Store is an online retail of goods and services. In recent years, it has become the most convenient way for consumers to browse, shop and buy from their favorite retailers (Click to Tweet). However, statistics keep being published showing only a very low percentage of Canadian small and mid-size enterprises having an e-Commerce site.
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No distribution company today can afford to ignore the potential in online purchasing.
The online store is so popular with consumers that 80% of Web users pre-visualize products before purchasing them.1 Therefore, to meet these expectations, it is all the more imperative for these companies to develop an online store solution that will represent such a growing market2.
However, only 10% of Quebec SMEs, that have 20 or fewer employees, have an online store solution.The situation at the national level is not any better. A recent poll shows that only 22% of Canadian SMEs employ an online store.
This is due to the common belief that most SMEs cannot afford an online store solution or that they cannot find one that will suit their business needs.
