.Every schedule fourth the U.S. Team of Commerce launches overall domestic retail purchases and also ecommerce only. Freshly posted numbers for Q1 2024 (PDF) present overall retail sales of $1.820 billion (a slight reduce over Q4 2023) as well as ecommerce-only retail purchases of $289 billion, a growth of 2.1% over the prior quarter.According to the doctor, ecommerce purchases are for "items and also solutions where the customer positions an order (or the price as well as terms of the purchase are actually bargained) over a Net, mobile phone, extranet, digital data interchange system, e-mail, or even various other similar online body. Settlement might or even may certainly not be actually made online.".Ecommerce represented 15.9% of overall U.S. retail sales in Q1 2024, up somewhat from 15.6% in the prior fourth.--.The DoC documents U.S. ecommerce retail sales in Q1 2024 increased by 8.6% compared to Q1 2023, while overall quarterly retail sales experienced a 1.5% annual rise over the very same time period in 2014.