The table provides data about 2 type of stores: department and online in Australia for 2001 year, including number of businesses, profit, sales revenue and the growth.
Overall, it is evident that all figures for online stores show prevalence in comparison to department stores. The most noticable difference can be seen in the number of businesses.
Number of businesses in online store amounted to 368, in contrast the numbers for department was only 67.However, in terms of profit there was no big difference both in department and online stores with figures at 807(million AUD) and 863(million AUD), respectively.
Online stores showed the greater number of sales revenue with figures at 13,400(million AUD), while the figures of sales for department shops were amounted at 12,700(million AUD).
The overall growth percentages for department and online retails were at 0,4% and 0,6%, respectively.Showing that majority of people chose online services to make purchases.
