The outbreak of COVID-19 lead to shutting down all physical stores worldwide, except the essential services like groceries, petrol, gas, and a few others. Even though grocery & vegetable stores were open, they were not getting enough sales and were running in losses. The reason behind this is fear of getting infected by the virus and so people didn’t step out for physical purchases.
As you can assume from the graph, there’s a steady rise in the number of consumers who choose shopping on mobile apps, further increasing the need for e-commerce app development This trend is beneficial for businesses they would be busy providing the best user experience to their customers and boosting up sales effectively.
A tipping point is coming despite the promising trends in mobile e-commerce: smartphones and tablets are expected to quickly outstrip desktops as the key platforms for online shopping. The ratio of laptop and smartphone e-commerce usage began to change in 2015.