The given illustration indicates the difference in statistics between offline and online stores in Australia in 2011.
Overall, it is clear that the figures for four indicators were totally higher in online shops. In addition, the percentage of growth reflecting that the demand for online businesses seems to be more remarkably growing in the future.
There was a dramatic gap then to offline and online shops, where the number of online businesses was quintupled slightly over the figure for department stores. In terms of profit (AUD), online stores continuously composed 56 AUD higher, at 863 AUD and 807 AUD, respectively.
Considering the number of sales revenue (AUD), 13,400 AUD was the figure measured by online business in 2011, while it was 700 AUD lower when it came to department stores during the period. Last, Australia recorded a 0.6% increase in growth for online shops, which was considerably higher than the 0.4% experienced by department stores. This reflects the growing trend in demand of Australia’ individuals for the online sector during that year.
