Wednesday, August 31 - September 6, 2022 - // no. 175
Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
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The profile of Puerto Rico’s ONLINE Consumer E-commerce is no longer the domain of younger generations
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Juan A. Hernández, The Weekly Journal
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espite general belief, it is not the younger consumer the one making greater and more frequent use of digital retail platforms. As a matter of fact, a recent study about the preferences of the digital consumer in Puerto Rico revealed that people between 35 and 64 years of age account for 70% of the consumers/users of these platforms, while people between 18 and 34 represent only 18% of that universe.
Two years of pandemic pushed the world’s economy further into the digital era more than any technological advance had done before. Puerto Rico was no exception. But like with many other developments, there is much myth surrounding the conditions that follow, and interpretations abound on how Puerto Rico’s cyber ecosystem has evolve in the late stages of the pandemic. “This train had already left the station, with just a few passengers on board, at some 50 miles-perhour. By 2020 and the pandemic, that train had GO TO PAGE 4