b'ONLINE RETAILit de facto pushed customers online at31), with online toy sales increasing 206If Indigenous people in Canada are higher rates than ever.per cent and video games 115 per centable to participate fully in the global from the month prior.economy, which is dependent on equi-A January 2023 report from Comscoretable access to high-speed internet, then announced that, for the first time inMeanwhileglobally,e-commercee-commerce can provide an essential history, online retail consumer spendingsales topped $5 trillion in 2022 withavenue for economic prosperity.exceeded $1 trillion in the U.S. in 2022,similar rates of growth, and by 2026 marking a 21 per cent increase fromthis number is expected to reach overE-commerce essentially refers to the 2021. During the 2022 holiday season, customers spent a total of $211.7 billion$8 trillion. The top three e-commercesale and purchase of goods online on non-travel-related e-commercemarkets of China, the U.S. and the U.K.that are shipped to customers homes (between November 1 and Decembermake up $3.7 trillion of these sales. without their needing to visit or callAbove: Nicole McLaren, owner of Raven Reads.Below: Shipping boxes from Raven Reads filled with Indigenous-themed books sold bythe companyAboriginal BUSINESS REPORT 17CCAB-Feb 2023-Final.indd 1 2/8/2023 8:24:28 AM'