.Every calendar quarter the U.S. Division of Trade launches complete domestic retail sales as well as ecommerce only. Freshly published figures for Q1 2024 (PDF) reveal total retail sales of $1.820 billion (a mild reduce over Q4 2023) as well as ecommerce-only retail sales of $289 billion, a growth of 2.1% over the previous quarter.According to the doctor, ecommerce sales are for "products and solutions where the shopper positions an order (or the price and also relations to the sale are actually haggled) over a World wide web, cell phone, extranet, digital information interchange network, e-mail, or other comparable online unit. Repayment might or even may not be actually made online.".Ecommerce made up 15.9% of complete U.S. retail purchases in Q1 2024, up somewhat coming from 15.6% in the prior fourth.--.The doctor records U.S. ecommerce retail purchases in Q1 2024 grew through 8.6% reviewed to Q1 2023, while overall quarterly retail sales experienced a 1.5% yearly increase over the exact same duration in 2015.