The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on e-commerce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This study aimsto uncover the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on e-commerce in Saudi Arabia and the response of consumers ’behavior to shopping through electronic platforms in light of this pandemic through their followers of the curfew to prevent the epidemic ,And for that, this research was divided into parts that dealt first with concepts On e-commerce, and how business continues in the light of this pandemic, to get to know in the second part the theimpact of Covid-19 on directing shopping behavior towards e-commerce, and in the final part we will address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic On e-commerce in Saudi Arabia.using a descriptive analytical approach based on some statistics that showed that the Covid-19 virus has a prominent role in increasing the growth of the volume of e-commerce business in Saudi Arabia due to the imposition of social divergence, which strengthened consumers ’tendency to shop online in a short period in implementation of the precautionary decisions that Issued by Saudi Arabia in order to enhance the activity of its corporate business for delivery via e- commerce.