Online Retail Sales Continue Steady Slow Growth

Last week the first quarter's retail sales and e-commerce sales numbers were released by the Dept. of Commerce. They show that retail sales online continue their steady growth. On an adjusted basis, they grew slightly as a percentage of all retail sales, to 2.6%, up from 2.5% in the fourth quarter of 2005. Read the full report.

The Census Department has been tracking this data, and NPA has been reporting this data, since the fourth quarter of 1999, when online sales were 0.6% of all retail sales.