Index – Economy – Electronic commerce is the biggest winner of the epidemic

Retail sales data for March was analyzed by Portfolio. The numbers show how shopping habits are affected by the curfew.

According to the analysis, also compared to March 2019 and February 2020

and the biggest loser is fuel rotation. The turnover of “mixed food” products goes beyond a slight but nominally larger increase.

Ecommerce billing in March was 82.5 billion HUF, which is close to Christmas data. And the growth rate shows that the April data will already be a record. E-commerce has been one of the fastest growing sectors without a corona virus anyway, a matter of how many people keep the habit of shopping online by lifting access restrictions.

In addition to the exit restriction, fuel traffic is also affected by the collapse of the world oil price, and such poor traffic data has not been measured at service stations since 2015.