PayPal: $4 trillion of goods abandoned in online shopping baskets in 2014

By Annifer Jackson

Consumers across the world left $4 trillion-worth of products in their online shopping carts last year, underlining one of the biggest problems facing e-commerce businesses.

A staggering 88 percent of visitors abandoned their basket in 2014 at an average worth of around $109, meaning a business which can reduce the amount of people picking things off their virtual shelves only to leave the site altogether could be in for a serious increase in profit.

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FinancesOnline.com has produced an infographic exploring these alarming statistics, including reasons why people decide to leave their shopping inside the World Wide Web.

From a lack of trust to discovering extortionate shipping costs, there are many things which retailers can do to try to convince online shoppers that they should buy from their site.

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See the infographic below to find out more. 

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