Qwan wrote:Even so, it seems unlikely that taking Canada and Mexico into account could reduce the statistic from 5% down to less than 0.01%. That works out to one five hundredth of 5% - are the Canadian and Mexican markets really so large / their online sales so unfathomably miniscule that they bring the number down that much? Realism when estimating figures (or perhaps citing a source as Seibertron did?) is your friend.
I am quoting a source, ME. I work there. The USA has 517 Costco warehouses, Canada has 98, and Mexico has 38.
The Average Costco warehouse makes between 700k and 1 million each day. So let's use the low end of 700K as an average when you multiply that you get 456.4 million, let's round down to 450 million. Online sales in Canada and the USA from costco.com and costco.ca amount to 20-25 million each day combined. Is it higher than .01% yes, it is, I was exaggerating a bit, but the fact is, it's hardly a drop in the bucket, and that's without adding in the Costco stores from Taiwan, the UK, Japan, South Korea, Iceland, Spain, France, or Australia which is an additional 95 locations and the Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea Costco's all average over a 1 million per day.
And that is just the statistics for the 7th LARGEST retailer in the world. Think about that. Online sales are Minuscule compared to Brick and mortar sales.