A recent email from Internet Retailer grabbed my attention.

Its purpose was to plug their new annual Top 500 Guide — a huge directory packed with stats on who’s big in e-commerce, who’s growing market share and who’s not.

But what caught my eye was their take on what’s new in the data.

For years, it said, previous guides had shown big-box stores getting drubbed in e-commerce sales by web-only e-tailers.

“But,” the email said, “…that began changing in 2013, when the chains closed the gap by growing their online sales by 16.7%, taking market share away from manufacturers and catalogers…. Read the rest of this entry →