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U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was $34.7 billion - an increase of 3.6 percent (±0.8 percent) from the second quarter - according to estimates from the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce, reports MarketingCharts.
The third quarter 2007 e-commerce estimate of sales increased 19.3 percent (±2.6 percent) from the third quarter of 2006 level. (See table of US retail sales - total and e-commerce - 3Q06 to 3Q07.)
E-commerce sales in the third quarter of 2007 accounted for 3.4 percent of total retail sales. (See chart of US retail e-commerce as a percentage of total quarterly retail sales, 4Q99 - 3Q07.)
Total retail sales for the third quarter of 2007 were estimated at $1,020.4 billion, an increase of 0.8 percent (±0.2 percent) from the second quarter of 2007 - and an increase of 3.8 percent (±0.5 percent) from the third quarter of 2006. (See table of US retail sales - total and e-commerce - 4Q99 to 3Q07.)
On a not-adjusted basis:
For previous Commerce Dept. releases of e-commerce data, see the following:
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