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Comparing the obtained research results to the results of the similar study from previous years, there should be noted the fact of a significant increase in the share of shops possessing all their assortment in stock. Generally,itis possible to state that the number of stores possessing almost all of the offered items has increased and the number of shops which have only a percentage of the offered assortment in stock has fallen. Such a tendency may prove searching for a possibility of adjusting the volume of the maintained stocks to the demand reported by clients, by the representatives of online stores and, therefore, paying greater attention to the importance of the availability of products and rapidity of order processing and, at the same time, improving the level of customer service.