.Every calendar quarter the USA Team of Trade launches total domestic retail purchases and also ecommerce only. Newly published numbers for Q1 2024 (PDF) reveal total retail purchases of $1.820 billion (a light decrease over Q4 2023) as well as ecommerce-only retail sales of $289 billion, a development of 2.1% over the previous one-fourth.According to the DoC, ecommerce sales are for "goods as well as services where the customer places an order (or even the rate as well as relations to the purchase are actually arranged) over a World wide web, smart phone, extranet, electronic data variation network, e-mail, or even other similar online body. Remittance may or may not be actually made online.".Ecommerce represented 15.9% of total united state retail purchases in Q1 2024, up slightly from 15.6% in the prior fourth.--.The DoC files U.S. ecommerce retail sales in Q1 2024 expanded by 8.6% compared to Q1 2023, while total quarterly retail sales experienced a 1.5% yearly growth over the exact same period in 2013.