London
Saudi spending habits have been revealed in re-search showing half of the Kingdom’s consumers shop online at least every week. Some 24 percent of those surveyed shop online two to three times a week while 11 percent shop daily, according to research from Podean. Online shopping has boomed this year as pandemic-related lockdowns have closed shops. Now some online retailers fear delays in the run up to the busy year-end festive period as delivery companies be-come overloaded. “The pandemic rapidly accelerated the already fast growing adoption of online shopping in Saudi Ara-bia, with consumers that were slow to adopt e-commerce as a way to buy goods forced to embrace this channel whilst under lockdown,” said Mark Power, CEO of Podean. “We are now seeing brands that were prepared for this rapid shift in consumer behavior reaping the rewards.”
