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 given chart compares four criteria namely number of businesses, profit, sales revenue and growth between Australia physical

stores

and Internet-based

stores

in 2011.

Overall

, it can obviously be seen that

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all the figures for e-shops were higher than those for department

stores

. The rates of general growth of

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types of

stores

were approximately equivalent The number of businesses

of

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online

stores

was 368, nearly five times higher than the figure for outlets with 67.

Although

there was a huge gap between the number of businesses, the profit of both did not have much difference, with 807

AUD

for offline

stores

and 863

AUD

for online ones. It can be concluded that the physical

stores

had higher efficiency compared with the online boutiques. In 2011, the former earned 12700

AUD

dollars

while

the latter yielded 13400

AUD

dollars, not too much difference.