.Every schedule fourth the U.S. Division of Business releases total domestic retail sales and ecommerce only. Newly released figures for Q1 2024 (PDF) show complete retail purchases of $1.820 billion (a mild decrease over Q4 2023) and also ecommerce-only retail sales of $289 billion, a development of 2.1% over the prior quarter.According to the DoC, ecommerce sales are for "items and also solutions where the purchaser places a purchase (or the cost as well as relations to the sale are worked out) over a Net, smart phone, extranet, electronic data interchange system, e-mail, or even various other equivalent online device. Payment may or even might not be actually created online.".Ecommerce accounted for 15.9% of overall U.S. retail purchases in Q1 2024, up slightly from 15.6% in the previous fourth.--.The DoC documents united state ecommerce retail purchases in Q1 2024 increased by 8.6% reviewed to Q1 2023, while total quarterly retail sales experienced a 1.5% annual growth over the very same time frame in 2013.