Still playing with Eurostat ecommerce data, and still not very happy with it. Including mail order (which is 25-50% of this data!) masks the real growth in ecommerce, and using an index means we don’t know the base. Yet, this is all that’s disclosed.

Sometimes you can’t find the data, and sometimes it does’t give a useful or even accurate picture. If so, don’t use it, and keep looking (Memo to US Congress antitrust staff)

Meanwhile the Eurostat data (commerce & mail order) says Germany was up 40% year on year in May where the German stats agency says e-commerce was up 60%.