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Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit SA five months ago, the e-commerce market was already one that was growing at a dramatic pace. The 2019 SA Retail Report expected annual e-commerce activity in SA to exceed R14bn last year alone — yet that was only a 1.2% slice of the retail pie in the country. Arguably, that slice will grow as we head towards a still-to-be-defined new normal.
With the national lockdown instituted from March 26 this year, any pre-Covid predictions on the state of e-commerce growth and revenues in 2020 have been severely disrupted...
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