Covid-19 is good for puzzles

One of the big winners of the Greek lockdown has been jigsaw puzzles. Greeks both young and old have sent online sales of this category of table games soaring 1,654 percent month-on-month, according to a survey that tracked the switch of consumers to online purchases because of the Covid-19 restrictions.

Puzzles are not alone in seeing sales soar. Online sales in general saw turnover jump 134 percent in the week from March 30 to April 5 compared to a year earlier, according to a survey by the Greek Electronic Commerce Association (GRECA) in cooperation with the BestPrice and Skroutz online platforms, along with Google and the eMarket Intelligence team of the Convert Group.

The pace of growth keeps increasing: In the week when stores were forced to close, spending at e-shops increased 58 percent year-on-year, while annual growth in spending came to 100 percent a week...