The two pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in Canada in 2005 and 2010. Summerise 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. Summerise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The two pie charts illustrate the proportion of online sales in Canada from 2005 to 2010 in four categories, electronics and appliances, home furnishings, food and beverages, and video games.
Overall
, it can be seen from the diagrams the digital sales of electronics and appliances and home furnishings decreased and food and beverages and video games expanded in both years. It is conspicuous that the sale of food and beverages was 22% in 2005, which augmented to 32 in 2010, which was the highest growth among other categories.
Furthermore
, video games
also
played a good role and it increased by 5% in 2010, originally 18% in 2005 and rose significantly to 23% in 2010. Probing ahead, it can be experienced that the Internet sale of home furnishings was 25% and it declined abruptly to 10% in 2010.
In addition
, the major player in electronics and appliances was 35% in 2005 and it plunged to 30% in 2010.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • accounted for
  • notable decrease
  • significant increase
  • steady growth
  • modest increase
  • sharp decline
  • percentage of online sales
  • retail sectors
  • pie charts
  • comparison
  • over the five-year period
  • largest share
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