.Every calendar fourth the USA Team of Business releases overall domestic retail sales and also ecommerce merely. Newly released numbers for Q1 2024 (PDF) show complete retail purchases of $1.820 billion (a minor reduce over Q4 2023) as well as ecommerce-only retail purchases of $289 billion, a growth of 2.1% over the prior fourth.According to the DoC, ecommerce sales are actually for "products and also solutions where the shopper places a purchase (or the rate and terms of the purchase are actually bargained) over a World wide web, smart phone, extranet, digital information interchange network, electronic mail, or even various other similar online body. Remittance may or even might not be actually made online.".Ecommerce accounted for 15.9% of total united state retail sales in Q1 2024, up slightly from 15.6% in the previous one-fourth.--.The DoC reports U.S. ecommerce retail sales in Q1 2024 grew through 8.6% matched up to Q1 2023, while overall quarterly retail purchases experienced a 1.5% annual rise over the very same time frame in 2014.