In the fourth annual IMRG/Hitwise Hot Shops list, Amazon still remains on the top position since last four years.
Actually, top three were same as the previous year by Argos in second place and Play in third.

Apple frames the top four – it has scaled 13 places from 17th in 2009 owing to the online commands of the iPad amid additional things (the list is formed excessively early on to comprise iPhone 4 sales).

As of the unique top 10 reverse in 2006, there are at a halt seven businesses current and six of the peak 10 have physical supplies additionally (a sum of 33 beyond the top 50 has physical stores).

It has been supposed that Amazon possibly breaching a physical store to hold up its online attendance, mostly owing to a Sunday Times article that sprints at the finish of the previous year, that has in view of the fact that proved to be fake.

James Roper, IMRG’s CEO said:
“With multichannel retailers now accounting for two-thirds of the top 50 merchants, it is clear that those with both physical stores and an online presence are leading the growth in e-retail. This is also evidenced in the IMRG Capgemini E-retail Sales Index, where multichannel retailers are consistently outperforming their pureplay counterparts in terms of sales growth. Not surprisingly, fashion retailers continue to move up the Hot Shops List as clothing remains one of the fastest growing online sectors.”

[Via pocket-lint]