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Sat, Feb 11 2012
Eurostat: only 5% of Bulgarians shop online
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With just five per cent of the population having shopped online in 2009, Bulgaria landed a bottom spot in the bottom of the European ranking in terms of online purchases according to the European Union statistics office Eurostat.
This was seven times less than the block's average of 37 per cent and matched with the figures for Lithuania and Romania.
Less than 20 per cent browsed the web to look up information on products and services, ranking the country as next-to-last in the EU.
Bulgaria remains the EU country with the poorest Internet penetration, with only 30 per cent of all local households connected to the net, where 26 per cent use broadband connection.
Source: Dnevnik.bg
This was seven times less than the block's average of 37 per cent and matched with the figures for Lithuania and Romania.
Less than 20 per cent browsed the web to look up information on products and services, ranking the country as next-to-last in the EU.
Bulgaria remains the EU country with the poorest Internet penetration, with only 30 per cent of all local households connected to the net, where 26 per cent use broadband connection.
Source: Dnevnik.bg
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What a primitive country.
Call me an optimist if you wish but for me "only 5%" means that the increase is yet to come, in the very near future, and it is inevitable.
I am currently working on a project to bring some UK/EU catalogue retailers to the Bulgarian market, and I strongly believe it will be worth the effort.
If you have any further thoughts please e-mail me to: jordan@artefact.bg
If they send products with courier its very cheap and works superbly.
But i understand from a number of Bulgarians that alot of the goods sent to you are fakes, so they prefer to buy in a known store for there products. EG. Ordered some products of technomarket online, then took around 17 phone calls and 3 weeks to get the goods delivered only to find some items missing and also some different items to what was ordered, took an age and a day to sort out. NOT WORTH IT ME THINKS.
No chance of the purchases arriving if the suppliers use the normal postal system. Never seen such a corrupt system and so little interest in sorting it out.
It will come. In the UK spending online rose from £1 Billion to £100 Billion in 8 years and from 20% to 56% in the same time. Now in the UK 28 Million people shop online. With sites like shopping.bg now coming online, it will come slowly. Metro, Technopolis and the like need to wake up though !!!!!!!