The provided table outlines the data of purchase-related comparing Australian department and online stores in 2011 regarding four separate aspects: number of businesses, profit, sales revenue and general growth. Overall, it can be seen that online stores in operation were considerably an upward trend though profits and revenue of both physical and web-based stores were nearly consistent with web-based holding a small edge for each. The online stores also experienced meaningfully greater growth.
In terms of online stores, the number of businesses was roughly five times higher in comparion with physical ones according to the data at 368 virtual to just 67 department shops. Despite such a significant gap, profit figures in AUD displayed no subtantial difference in both online and physical retail, with 863 AUD and 807 AUD, respectively.
Concerning revenue, online purchase presented marginally higher final numbers accounted for 13,400 AUD compared to 12,700 AUD generated by physical locations. Finally, the growth proportion recorded of physical locations was 0,4% which was only 0,2% lower than that of web-based stores