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In 2014, U.S. e-commerce and online retail sales were projected to reach $294 billion — about what share of all U.S. retail sales was that?

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$25 billion

In 2014, Alibaba Group's IPO set a record as the largest ever at the time. About how much did it raise?

Alibaba's IPO reflected the huge scale of China's e-commerce boom.

Source: Wikipedia: E-commerce (2014) en.wikipedia.org

about 87% ($25.5T of $29.3T)

Of that 2017 global e-commerce total, about what share came from business-to-business (B2B) rather than consumer sales?

Consumer e-commerce gets most of the attention, but B2B trade online is far larger in dollar terms.

Source: Wikipedia: E-commerce (2017) en.wikipedia.org

14.3 billion visits

In March 2020, as lockdowns began, global retail website traffic hit about how many visits?

Shoppers rushed online in huge numbers as physical stores closed during the pandemic.

Source: Wikipedia: E-commerce (2020) en.wikipedia.org

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