{"id":1,"date":"2017-08-08T19:18:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyleohare.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-08-09T07:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:10:47","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce accounts for 11.7% of total sales in 2016, 15.6% over 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Department of Commerce reports total e-commerce sales in 2016 reached $394.9 billion.<\/h2>\n

The Commerce Department reports online sales grew 15.1 percent in 2016 and accounted for 8.1 percent of total retail sales for the year. Internet Retailer, which covered the Commerce Department\u2019s report last week, noted that the Commerce Department\u2019s retail sales data included items not normally bought online, such as fuel and automobiles.<\/p>\n

Excluding fuel and car sales, Internet Retailer\u2019s calculations showed e-commerce growth slightly higher at 15.6 percent, with online retail sales representing 11.7 percent of total retail sales versus the 8.1 percent reported by the Commerce Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS online retail sales grew faster in 2016 than they have in the past three years,\u201d reports Internet Retailer.<\/p>\n

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Internet Retailer says total retail sales \u2014 factoring out fuel, automobiles, restaurant sales and bar sales from the Commerce Department\u2019s report \u2014 reached $3.375 trillion in 2016 \u2014 up 3.9 percent from 2015\u2019s total retail sales.<\/p>\n

Going by Internet Retailer\u2019s numbers, e-commerce accounted from 41.6 percent of all retail sales growth last year. Internet Retailer also added that the majority of last year\u2019s online sales growth was a result of Amazon. From Internet Retailer\u2019s report:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s proof: The total value of transactions from US consumers on Amazon.com reached $147.0 billion last year, a 31.3% increase compared with $112.0 billion in 2015, according to Internet Retailer and ChannelAdvisor Corp. estimates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Using these numbers, Internet Retailer says Amazon drove 65.9 percent of US e-commerce growth last year \u2014 and 27.4 percent of total retail sales growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US Department of Commerce reports total e-commerce sales in 2016 reached $394.9 billion. The Commerce Department reports online sales grew 15.1 percent in 2016 and accounted for 8.1 percent of total retail sales for the year. Internet Retailer, which covered the Commerce Department\u2019s report last week, noted that the Commerce Department\u2019s retail sales data… Read More »E-commerce accounts for 11.7% of total sales in 2016, 15.6% over 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleohare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}