E-commerce is finally disrupting the $300 billion a year health and personal care industry Read mor

At $300 billion a year in sales, health and personal care is the second-largest retail category in the US behind groceries. However, like the grocery industry, e-commerce has yet to really disrupt the American drug store.

Only 7% of health and personal care sales occurred online last year, according to the US Census.
For comparison, more than 20% of home furnishing sales and 30% of electronics sales occur online.
But more consumers are beginning to shop online for products that they’d typically go to a drug store to purchase. About 36 million US consumers shopped online for health and beauty products in the spring of 2014, up from 20 million consumers in spring 2010.

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