After a year of unprecedented gains for ecommerce, here's how 2021 is shaping up by product category

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In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic accelerated ecommerce sales growth significantly. Growth won't be as high in 2021, but total sales will far exceed our pre-pandemic estimates.

We estimate that US retail ecommerce sales grew 33.6% in 2020, reaching $799.18 billion. As the pandemic subsides, in-store shopping will rebound, and a share of consumer spending will revert away from retail and toward services like travel and live entertainment.

However, sales growth this year will still build upon the massive upward revision from 2020, causing total ecommerce sales for 2021 to be more than $147 billion greater than we expected prior to the pandemic. We forecast ecommerce sales will grow...

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