The Century of the Internet continues in the yard, and an increasing number of customers are purchasing goods online. For those who want to make a purchase without leaving home, they began to apply the new-fangled term - “inetshopper”. In a short time, hundreds of large and small, specialized and universal online stores around the world have organized and developed. Russia did not stand aside. In RuNet, tens of thousands of online trading platforms offer their services, the share of sales of which is growing rapidly. How not to get lost in this forest and choose the really best, cheapest and most reliable online store? TheBiggest.ru will help you understand which Russian sites won the love of users who, as you know, vote in rubles.
The best review about a store is its popularity among customers, which is measured by the amount of money left in it. We will present you the current rating of the most popular online stores in Russia and the world.
TOP 10 best online stores in Russia
1
Wildberries.ru
Created in 2004, the online store, for the third year already, has been the largest shopping platform in the Russian segment of the Internet. The project of a former teacher, a tutor of the English language, who changed her profession due to the birth of a child, won the market as soon as possible and became the best online clothing store in Russia. Inetshopper praised the site for its huge range of inexpensive items from a large number of fashion brands. Acceptable prices for buyers are ensured through direct cooperation with manufacturers and official distributors of fashionable clothes and accessories. On average, more than 100 thousand orders are processed daily on the site, with about half of them being returned to the seller.
2
DNS
An even faster take-off in the ranking of the best online stores occurred with DNS. Starting in 1998, after the default in Vladivostok and going beyond the Primorsky Territory in 2005, DNS quickly began to conquer the market.
Realizing computer technology at the beginning of its journey, today the company has significantly expanded its range. The assortment of the store is more than 12 million diversified in various categories of non-food products.
3
Citilink.ru
Among the most popular Russian stores, Citylink stands out. The Moscow-based company, in addition to standard mail deliveries and points of delivery, has full-size stores, of which there are more than 30. Large areas of retail space, where there are company representatives, are occupied by various electronic devices, gadgets and accessories, and about 300 thousand users visit the company’s website daily .
4
Mvideo.ru
For this trading network, getting into the rating of the most popular online stores is a pleasant, but a side factor of activity. The main activity of M. Video, from the beginning of its existence, is the sale of digital and household appliances in physically existing retail stores. Among all the Russian stores of our top, the largest average inetshopper check is left on M.Video's online site.
5
Eldorado.ru
The following story has a similar story in our top 10 best. Eldorado, a successful retail chain of home appliances, has created an online platform for online sales to increase revenue. By popularity in its segment, the famous store was second only to M. Video. The competition between the two giants of the Russian home appliance market has become purely formal in 2017, because thanks to the deal that ended this year, both stores are owned and operated by one business group - Safmar.
6
Lamoda.ru
One of the best online clothing stores quickly broke into the Russian market. Managed by four foreign founders, the Lamoda service, unlike the Wildberries, retained a narrowly focused fashion specialization. The mods liked the opportunity to try on the delivered goods for free and refuse them without having any tough financial obligations to the online seller. This is the same shopping, just without leaving home and with a huge assortment of more than 2 million items of goods from thousands of famous fashion brands.
7
Ozon.ru
Originally a company specializing in the sale of books and video products via the World Wide Web, over the 20 years of its existence it has reached the status of one of the largest diversified online stores. About 4 million positions in 18 categories are represented on the site. A distinctive feature characteristic of Ozon.ru is books and electronics. According to an authoritative publication, the company's value is close to 700 million dollars.
8
Exist.ru
Having arisen at the end of the last century, in Moscow, the center for the sale of automotive parts and accessories was already distinguished by its delivery speed and level of service. Having opened an IT company, the founders of Exist were among the first at the beginning of the new century to open a specialized service for the sale of automotive components in RuNet. In 2016, the company's partners opened a logistics center in the suburbs. According to unconfirmed reports - this is the largest warehouse of auto parts in Europe. The company also has representative offices in more than a hundred cities of the country.
9
Svyaznoy.ru
Another of the top sellers of various electronic gadgets in our list is Svyaznoy. The site of mobile and digital technology is visited monthly by about 15 million users. The resource has gained popularity thanks to convenient payment and delivery services, as well as a service for comparing goods. Svyaznoy places a particular emphasis on working with corporate clients.
10
Kupivip.ru
The trick of this online shopping site is the sale of fashion brand clothes at low prices. The company makes advantageous offers to its customers through the purchase of warehouse balances owned by both Russian and international fashion houses. There are assortment of goods and our own brands, and since 2015 in Moscow began to develop a network of offline sales points.
List of the best in the world
And now let's move on to the list of the most popular online stores in the world. Good performance of Russian counterparts fades against the background of world leaders in online sales, both in terms of turnover and cash equivalent of sales. No wonder at the beginning of 2018 the Forbes rating was headed by the creator of one of such sites - Jeff Bezos (Amazon).
1
Amazon.com
The undisputed leader of the global online retail with offices in many countries originated in the United States. The company was one of the first to create an online service selling consumer goods. The Amazon created in 1994 had an annual turnover of $ 134 billion, and its founder, Jeff Bezos, is recognized as one of the richest people on the planet.
2
Ebay.com
An online auction originally from the United States is not an online store in the usual sense. This is a trading platform where sellers can offer their goods and services. Buyers use eBay for free, and sellers are forced to pay fees. Moreover, the proposed product line items can be any of those permitted by law for sale, and the platform itself does not participate either in the execution of the transaction or in the delivery of goods. EBay's assets are valued at $ 24 billion.
3
Taobao.com and Aliexpress.com
The sites created by the Chinese company Alibaba Group are targeted at different categories of customers. Taobao operates in the domestic market. Its share is 80% of Chinese Internet sales, which is about 100 million registered users and 15 billion dollars in turnover. Aliexpress is focused on a foreign buyer of Chinese-made goods. It is most popular among residents of Russia. About 22% of sales go to our homeland. Sites work on the principle of their American competitor eBay.