Online retailer bol.com has just experienced its busiest day ever. Last
Monday, the e-retailer sold half a million items in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Online shopping was particularly busy between 9.00 pm and 10.00 pm. On Monday,
, bol.com not only broke the sales record set in 2016, but also those of all
previous years. Last year, on the busiest day before Christmas, consumers ordered
350,000 items.
To
cope with the peak period, 1,400
people work at Docdata for bol.com to process all the orders. On a
normal day, the figure is between 400 and 800 people.
In previous years, bol.com had actually been under a great deal of
. The
sales in the run-up to Christmas were barely
come close to those for Sinterklaas. The Christmas period is now
online shop is now one of the busiest times of the year. Last year, turnover
around Christmas by as much as 70 per cent.
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