.Every calendar fourth the USA Team of Commerce launches complete residential retail purchases and also ecommerce simply. Recently published figures for Q1 2024 (PDF) present total retail sales of $1.820 billion (a mild decrease over Q4 2023) and also ecommerce-only retail sales of $289 billion, a growth of 2.1% over the previous fourth.According to the doctor, ecommerce purchases are for "goods as well as solutions where the customer positions an order (or even the rate as well as relations to the sale are actually haggled) over a Net, mobile phone, extranet, digital data interchange network, electronic mail, or even other comparable online body. Repayment may or might certainly not be actually made online.".Ecommerce accounted for 15.9% of total united state retail purchases in Q1 2024, up slightly from 15.6% in the previous quarter.--.The doctor reports USA ecommerce retail sales in Q1 2024 grew by 8.6% compared to Q1 2023, while complete quarterly retail sales experienced a 1.5% yearly surge over the same time period last year.