AKIT President Artem Sokolov speaks at the platform's Economy Day forum about the next stage in the development of online commerce:.
"Commerce actually stopped being divided into offline and online for us. It is convenient for the buyer to buy online - we will provide him with such a service. It's convenient to walk into the store or pick up your order in person - we'll also deliver it. Already more than 211 thousand retail stores are connected to the online channel for customer interaction, in addition, points of Russian acceptance, including acceptance points in Russia, including acceptance points, 310 thousand.
In just 9 months, we had more than 6.5 billion online orders, each of which could include more than one product. This is a tremendous volume.
Now it is important that the industry focuses on growth through technology and productivity with the end of the extensive growth phase."