{"id":7094,"date":"2017-04-05T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/?p=7094"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:24:46","slug":"fast-growing-e-commerce-category-great-news-uship-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/industry-trends\/fast-growing-e-commerce-category-great-news-uship-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"This Fast-Growing E-Commerce Category Is Great News for uShip Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingcharts.com\/online\/these-are-the-fastest-growing-e-commerce-categories-in-the-us-76302\/?utm_source=Marketing+Charts+Newsletter&amp;amp;utm_campaign=15830f8327-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_22&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_term=0_77b507436c-15830f8327-14380565&amp;amp;mc_cid=15830f8327&amp;amp;mc_eid=63fca51dda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/comScore-Retail-Ecommerce-Growth-Rates-by-Category-in-2016-Apr2017.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/comScore-Retail-Ecommerce-Growth-Rates-by-Category-in-2016-Apr2017.png 1000w, https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/comScore-Retail-Ecommerce-Growth-Rates-by-Category-in-2016-Apr2017-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/comScore-Retail-Ecommerce-Growth-Rates-by-Category-in-2016-Apr2017-768x422.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that e-commerce is exploding. So much so that it&#8217;s causing long-established offline retailers to rethink their inventory strategies and even close hundreds of brick-and-mortar stores to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201ce-commerce\u201d represents a giant mishmash of goods and services, a new study from research firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comscore.com\/Insights\/Presentations-and-Whitepapers\/2017\/2017-US-Cross-Platform-Future-in-Focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comScore<\/a> breaks down the fastest growing e-commerce categories in 2016 \u2014 and it\u2019s good news for providers in uShip&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uship.com\/household\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">household goods<\/a> category.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Furniture, Appliances &amp; Equipment<\/strong> category saw a 26 percent growth in 2016, ranking second only to Jewelry &amp; Watches (39 percent growth). In 2015, Furniture, Appliances &amp; Equipment ranked No. 10 and saw 15 percent growth.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Home and Garden<\/strong> e-commerce came in at No. 7 in 2016, growing 22 percent compared to 16 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This ultimately means consumers continue to get more and more comfortable buying large, non-parcel items online<\/strong>, whether it\u2019s on eBay, Amazon, direct from a merchant, or person-to-person. And this ultimately leads them seeking affordable, reliable, simple transport solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Given that household goods, including all forms of furniture, appliances, and equipment represents one of uShip\u2019s largest categories \u2014 there are currently over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uship.com\/find\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2100 active household goods shipments<\/strong><\/a> on the site \u2014 this is a great news for providers who want to\u00a0keep their trucks running full and avoid empty backhauls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that e-commerce is exploding. So much so that it&#8217;s causing long-established offline retailers to rethink their inventory strategies and even close hundreds of brick-and-mortar stores to adapt. While \u201ce-commerce\u201d represents a giant mishmash of goods and services, a new study from research firm comScore breaks down the fastest growing e-commerce categories in&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/industry-trends\/fast-growing-e-commerce-category-great-news-uship-providers\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-trends"],"acf":{"blog_post_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"blog_post_entry_footer","blog_post_entry_footer_cta":[{"blog_post_entry_footer_cta_url":"http:\/\/www.uship.com\/find?r=5666457","blog_post_entry_footer_cta_text":"Find Household Shipments","blog_post_entry_footer_onclick":""}]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}