The table shows information about department stores and online stores in Australia in 2011 Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

The provided table compares the statistics between two means of shopping in Australia, which is conventional and online in 2011. There were six indicators mentioned in the graph, namely number of businesses, profit, sales revenue and the growth.

The initial impression from the chart is that the figures of virtual stores dominated their department counterparts and had a slight edge in profit, sales revenue and growth

The number of online retailers was almost sixfold higher than that of department stores. In terms of revenue, 67 department stores generated 12700 million AUD compared to 13400 million AUD of 368 e-commerce stores.

A similar pattern is evident in regard to interest. Online retailing gained 863 million AUD in profit, which was 56 million more than traditional retailing. It is also indicated that virtual business growth rate was 0.6%, nearly double that of customary one.