The two pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in Canada in 2005 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The two pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in Canada in 2005 and 2010.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts depict how many
Electronics
& Appliance, Home Furnishings,
Food
& Beverages and
Video
Games
were sold in Canada over a 5-year timescale from 2005 to 2010. Broadly,
while
the percentage of online sales from
Food
& Beverage and
Video
Games
registered upward trends, that of
Electronics
& Appliances and Home Furnishings witnessed completely opposite trajectories during the surveyed period.
Electronics
& Appliance, notably, was by far the most popular retail sector. From the outset in 2005, the proportion of internet sales from
Electronics
& Appliances reached the highest point, accounting for 35%, which was in the region of 10% higher than that of Home Furnishings.
Thereafter
, both of them decreased significantly to 30% and 15% respectively. Commencing from 2005, approximately 22% of online sales came from
Food
& Beverage, compared to 18% of
Video
Games
. After that, there was a jump to 32% in the figure for
Food
& Beverage in 2010.
Similarly
, a sharp increase
to
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23% was witnessed in the data of
Video
Games
at the same time.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words electronics, food, video, games with synonyms.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • distribution
  • percentage
  • sector
  • sales figures
  • revenue
  • growth
  • decline
  • stable
  • significant
  • leading
  • least performing
  • comparison
  • trend
  • increase
  • decrease
  • online shopping
  • retail sectors
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