E-Commerce Reaches 11 % of Total Retail Sales

The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced on 11/19 that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter of 2019, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $154.5 billion, an increase of 5.0 percent (±0.4%) from the second quarter of 2019.

Total retail sales for the third quarter of 2019 were estimated at $1,380.5 billion, an increase of 1.4 percent (±0.2%) from the second quarter of 2019.

The third quarter 2019 e-commerce estimate increased 16.9 percent (±1.4%) from the third quarter of 2018 while total retail sales increased 4.0 percent (±0.4%)

In the same period. E-commerce sales in the third quarter of 2019 accounted for 11.2 percent of total sales.