.Every calendar one-fourth the U.S. Department of Commerce discharges complete residential retail sales as well as ecommerce merely. Freshly posted numbers for Q1 2024 (PDF) present complete retail purchases of $1.820 billion (a slight decline over Q4 2023) as well as ecommerce-only retail sales of $289 billion, a growth of 2.1% over the previous fourth.According to the DoC, ecommerce sales are actually for "goods and also services where the shopper places an order (or even the cost and terms of the purchase are actually bargained) over a Web, mobile phone, extranet, electronic records variation network, electronic mail, or even other equivalent online body. Settlement may or may not be created online.".Ecommerce represented 15.9% of total USA retail sales in Q1 2024, up slightly from 15.6% in the previous fourth.--.The DoC reports U.S. ecommerce retail purchases in Q1 2024 expanded by 8.6% contrasted to Q1 2023, while overall quarterly retail sales experienced a 1.5% annual growth over the exact same time period in 2014.