.Every calendar one-fourth the united state Team of Commerce launches complete domestic retail sales and also ecommerce just. Freshly posted amounts for Q1 2024 (PDF) reveal total retail sales of $1.820 billion (a light reduction over Q4 2023) and also ecommerce-only retail sales of $289 billion, a growth of 2.1% over the prior fourth.Depending on to the doctor, ecommerce sales are for "goods and services where the customer places an order (or the cost and relations to the sale are actually worked out) over a Web, cell phone, extranet, digital information variation system, e-mail, or even other equivalent online unit. Settlement might or even might not be actually created online.".Ecommerce accounted for 15.9% of total united state retail purchases in Q1 2024, up a little from 15.6% in the prior quarter.--.The DoC reports USA ecommerce retail sales in Q1 2024 grew by 8.6% compared to Q1 2023, while total quarterly retail purchases experienced a 1.5% annual surge over the very same time period in 2013.