Online or offline: French consumers' purchasing habits| ��ƽ��

In general, if you can choose to purchase at a physical store or on a "pure-player" e-commerce website, where do you go?*

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November 2013

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Region

France

Survey time period

October 30 to 31, 2013

Number of respondents

1,010 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

Supplementary notes

* Pure players are companies that only sell their products or services online.

Citation formats

 In a survey conducted in 2013 on purchasing habits of French people, ** percent of the respondents declared preferring purchasing at a brick-and-mortar store (or its dedicated online shop) rather than from a pure play e-commerce website.  

Online and offline purchasing habits

   The results of the ��ƽ�� Global Consumer Survey from early 2019 reveal that four out of ten French consumers preferred to purchase products like clothing, cultural goods or consumer electronics online. On the other hand, pharmacy products or food products were preferably bought in physical stores according to French surveyed in 2018. Furthermore, about a quarter of respondents to a 2019 Barometer stated also having cross-channel purchase habits and using drive-ins.   

Growing online purchase types

   Although food products still are something French consumers prefer to buy in physical shops, the penetration rate of online grocery shopping slightly increased in the past years: from ** percent of internet users in 2014 up to ** percent in 2018. Another growing online buying practice is making C2C (consumer-to-consumer) purchases online: in a study from 2017, the share of C2C e-buyers increased from ** in 2015 up to ** percent.