The Young Consumer in the Ukrainian e-Commerce Market
The Young Consumer in the Ukrainian e-Commerce Market

Summary/Abstract: Main trends in the development of e-commerce in Ukraine based on the results of the year 2015 were reviewed. Despite the crisis and annual decrease by 20%, the Ukrainian e-commerce has predispositions for growth. It is mainly caused by the factors of legislative (passing of the national law concerning e-commerce), economic (devaluation of Ukrainian hryvnia motivating the consumers to purchase goods on-line as an alternative to traditional retail, and give their preference to national producers), and technologic character (spread of the Internet, introduction of the third generation mobile telephony). Moreover, the focus upon the improvement of the Internet service, spread of the network of logistics companies, and development of on-line payment systems – these are the tasks for the Ukrainian e-commerce in the nearest future. Attention was drawn in the article to the target e-commerce audience which is mainly represented by youth. The presented results of sociological research (conducted by the authors in 2015 among young people of 18-35 years in the Lviv region) show that the consumer preferences vary significantly dependin.

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