Czechs to spend over 80 billion crowns on online purchases this year

Czech consumers are expected to spend some 81 billion crowns on online purchases in 2015, a year-on-year increase by 21 percent. The number of domestic e-shops, however, has started falling for the first time this year, according to estimates by the Electronic Commerce Association and the Czech online shopping search engine Heureka.cz. The number of internet stores has decreased by some one percent to 36,800 this year. Czechs are spending the highest amounts of money in e-shops on electronics in the long term, but a significant growth this year was seen by goods like over-the-counter medicines, house and garden equipment and fashion and clothing.

Author: Ruth Fraňková