Ecommerce, though weak, is growing in Azerbaijan.
According to the Ministry of Economic Development, this segment in January-March increased nearly 2-fold in comparison to the amount on April 1 last year, amounting to 508.2 million manat or 18.5 kopecks per capita. Almost the entire volume of trade (94.2%), as expected, was in the non-food products.
Until now profitable to trade products through POS terminals - three months sellers country counted 29.5 million manat, while also registered growth of 2.6 times).
Over the past year the volume of e-commerce has made 1 million 599.8 thousand manats. - 17D-
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