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The State of STORES in 2025

Updated Apr 11 2025

STORES is an ecommerce platform, based in Japan, aimed at small businesses, allowing them to create online stores in a matter of minutes.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on STORES usage.

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STORES Growth

At present, there are 19,368 live stores running on the STORES platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running STORES.

  • STORES stores increased 0.2% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q1.
  • STORES stores decreased -2% year-over-year in 2025 Q1.
Quarter
Active Stores
2020 Q4
12,700
2021 Q1
16,407
2021 Q2
17,093
2021 Q3
19,237
2021 Q4
20,410
2022 Q1
20,906
2022 Q2
20,995
2022 Q3
20,453
2022 Q4
20,429
2023 Q1
20,896
2023 Q2
20,434
2023 Q3
20,230
2023 Q4
19,925
2024 Q1
19,660
2024 Q2
10,087
2024 Q3
15,246
2024 Q4
19,468
2025 Q1
19,334
2025 Q2 (to date)
19,368
Active Stores by Quarter

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a STORES store was first created but we use a heuristic that includes historical DNS data which provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On STORES Stores

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

  • Instagram is used by 55.2% of STORES stores.
  • Facebook is used by 28.7% of STORES stores.
  • Twitter is used by 25.2% of STORES stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
10,685
Facebook
5,555
Twitter
4,872
YouTube
501
Tiktok
28
Facebook Group
9
Pinterest
4
WhatsApp
1

Contact Information On STORES Stores

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

  • 4% of STORES stores have an email on their website
  • 2% of STORES stores provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
807
Phone
324

Top Categories For STORES Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on STORES.

  • 1.5% of STORES stores sell Apparel products.
  • 1.3% of STORES stores sell Food & Drink products.
  • 0.8% of STORES stores sell Arts & Entertainment products.

Top Countries For STORES Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using STORES.

  • 100.0% of STORES stores are in Japan
Country
Stores
19,368

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Number Of Employees For STORES Stores

Here is the breakdown of STORES stores by the number of employees.

  • 100.0% of STORES stores have Unknown employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
19,368

Number Of Products Sold For STORES Stores

Here is the breakdown of STORES stores by the number of products that they sell.

  • 51.9% of STORES stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 4.4% of STORES stores sell 25 - 49 different products.
  • 3.2% of STORES stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
10,059
10 - 24
621
25 - 49
850
50 - 99
113
100 - 249
528
250 - 999
271
1000 - 4999
60
5000 - 9999
12
10000 - 24999
8
25000 - 99999
1

Top Technologies on STORES Stores

We're tracking 21 different technologies that have 190,953 collective installs on STORES stores.

  • Facebook SDK is used by 100.0% of STORES stores.
  • Twitter Pixel is used by 100.0% of STORES stores.
  • Google Ads Pixel is used by 100.0% of STORES stores.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all STORES stores.

Technology
Stores
19,367
19,367
19,367
19,366
19,365

Top Shipping Carriers Used By STORES Stores

  • Japan Post is used by 0.2% of STORES stores.
  • Yamato Transport is used by 0.1% of STORES stores.
  • Fedex is used by 0.0% of STORES stores.

Here are the top 6 shipping carriers across all STORES stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Japan Post
30
Yamato Transport
15
Fedex
4
USPS
4
UPS
3
Sagawa Express
2

STORES Store Top-level Domain Distribution

Here is the top-level domain distribution for STORES stores.

  • 67.4% of STORES stores have a .jp domain.
  • 14.8% of STORES stores have a .shop domain.
  • 14.4% of STORES stores have a .com domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.jp
13,053
.shop
2,859
.com
2,797
.net
654
.or.jp
1
.website
1
.co.jp
1
.live
1
.biz
1

Top STORES Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by STORES, ordered by store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
épine
97,391
2017/04/28
PÂTISSERIE ASAKO IWAYANAGI
98,904
2018/04/20
Treat ürself
treaturself.shop
270,348
2024/11/15
Atlantis Vintage Tokyo
303,804
2021/06/25
humanbug.shop
humanbug.shop
304,459
2024/11/15

New STORES Stores

Here are the 0 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
getalabo-store.com
1,593,137
2025/04/11
Anne Imai WebShop
anneimai.shop
6,640,861
2025/04/11
琉球COLLECTION 叶
ryukyu-collection-kana.shop
6,682,498
2025/04/11
buube
also-page-spread.shop
6,704,089
2025/04/11
ALTIRI CHIBA ACADEMY
altiri-academy.shop
8,273,601
2025/04/11

Stores Switching to STORES From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, STORES has taken 1 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores

Here are the top stores that have switched to STORES from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
Flosa
flosa.shop
6,413,024
WooCommerce
2025/03/15

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