.Every calendar quarter the USA Department of Commerce discharges complete residential retail purchases and also ecommerce simply. Newly published figures for Q1 2024 (PDF) present total retail sales of $1.820 billion (a small decrease over Q4 2023) and also ecommerce-only retail sales of $289 billion, a growth of 2.1% over the prior one-fourth.According to the doctor, ecommerce purchases are for "products and also services where the buyer positions a purchase (or the cost and relations to the sale are actually negotiated) over a World wide web, smart phone, extranet, digital records interchange system, e-mail, or even various other similar online system. Remittance might or might certainly not be actually created online.".Ecommerce accounted for 15.9% of overall U.S. retail purchases in Q1 2024, up somewhat from 15.6% in the prior one-fourth.--.The DoC files U.S. ecommerce retail purchases in Q1 2024 grew through 8.6% compared to Q1 2023, while overall quarterly retail sales experienced a 1.5% annual growth over the exact same time frame in 2014.