Are other e-commerce businesses seeing a sudden drop in orders?
Store owners are seeing order and shipment volumes decline by 20% to 50% this year. This severe drop in sales leaves them unable to pay their employees and is forcing some to permanently close businesses they have run for years.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Lowering pricesDid this help you?
- 2Analyzing analytics to isolate traffic vs. conversion dropsDid this help you?
- 3Pivoting the business modelDid this help you?
- 4Pushing email marketing to past customersDid this help you?
- 5Delaying staff cuts until cash flow requires itDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“This year, my orders have dropped by half.”source ↗
“So upset because my employees are great. I really want to have more orders so I can pay them”source ↗
“after 7 years i’m closing my business - it’s rough out there”source ↗
“We've seen about a 40% decline in shipments at my 3PL since January.”source ↗
“We are a specialty grocery store and have noticed 20% decrease in sales this October.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
- 6Why are my e-commerce sales suddenly dropping despite steady traffic?
- 33Why are clients suddenly ghosting contracts and sales slowing down?
- 2Why did my ad impressions suddenly drop to zero?
- 3Why is my checkout abandonment rate suddenly so high?
- 4Why did my gas mileage suddenly drop so much?
- 10Employer cut my hours without warning