One of the “Big 4 Accounting Firms,” Deloitte, projects record online sales this year in a recent press release:
Additionally, Deloitte forecasts an 8.5 to 9 percent increase in non-store sales in the online and mail order channels during the 2015 holiday season.
Further, their vice chairman of the Retail and Distribution Sector, Rod Sides, says we’ve “passed the tipping point” in terms of mobile and online engagement playing a much larger role in physical store sales (where about 90% of all sales still happen).
