{"id":1004167100,"date":"2017-02-20T07:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004167100"},"modified":"2022-12-08T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:53:44","slug":"economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004041171\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004041171\" data-attachment-id=\"1004041171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/051812-econwatch-online-shopping-user-intelfreepress-300x199\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,199\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300&#215;199\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image via Flickr Creative Commons user Intel Free Press&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg?w=300\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1004041171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress.jpg\" alt=\"Image via Flickr Creative Commons user Intel Free Press \" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004041171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr Creative Commons user Intel Free Press<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Online U.S. retail sales, which have had a long history of doing nothing but increasing quarter after quarter for over a decade, continued to increase during the fourth quarter of last year (adjusted for the fact that all retail sales spike at that time of the year), the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Friday. Quarter-over-quarter, sales were up 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with a year ago, e-commerce sales increased by a healthy 14.3 percent. Total U.S. retail sales were up 4.1 percent for the same period. E-commerce sales in the fourth quarter of 2016 accounted for 8.3 percent of total sales, the bureau reported. Ten years ago, the share of e-commerce sales was just north of 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Separately on Friday, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit that total household debt increased substantially\u2013by $226 billion, or a 1.8 percent increase\u2013to $12.58 trillion during the fourth quarter of 2016. That marked the largest quarterly increase in total household debt since the fourth quarter of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Also, such debt is now just 0.8 percent below its peak of $12.68 trillion reached in the third quarter of 2008, though that figure isn&#8217;t adjusted for the relatively small amount of inflation that the economy experiences every year. Moreover, all kinds of consumer debt are up. That consumers are willing to take on higher debt loads\u2013and lenders are willing to let them do it\u2013is an indication of optimism among consumers and lenders about the state of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers continue to spend, even as they take on more household debt, reflecting their continued optimism about the state of the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":1004041171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23891,21742],"tags":[32914,32808,32915],"class_list":["post-1004167100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-latest","tag-e-commerce","tag-federal-reserve-bank","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Consumers continue to spend, even as they take on more household debt, reflecting their continued optimism about the state of the U.S. economy.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-20T15:01:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-09T04:53:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"199\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dees Stribling\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dees Stribling\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/dc1e9fa4ee0430d86f8e60cd697c953c\"},\"headline\":\"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-20T15:01:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-09T04:53:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":283,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/46\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"E-Commerce\",\"Federal Reserve Bank\",\"United States Census Bureau\"],\"articleSection\":[\"National\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/\",\"name\":\"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/46\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-20T15:01:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-09T04:53:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/dc1e9fa4ee0430d86f8e60cd697c953c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/46\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/46\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg\",\"width\":\"300\",\"height\":\"199\",\"caption\":\"Image via Flickr Creative Commons user Intel Free Press\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Commercial Property Executive\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/dc1e9fa4ee0430d86f8e60cd697c953c\",\"name\":\"Dees Stribling\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/42add8af9e9229ed27332ad13f5b8c6f6ae89de868a41cf81baaac4ad46e589a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/42add8af9e9229ed27332ad13f5b8c6f6ae89de868a41cf81baaac4ad46e589a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/42add8af9e9229ed27332ad13f5b8c6f6ae89de868a41cf81baaac4ad46e589a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dees Stribling\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/dcstribling\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise - Commercial Property Executive","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise","og_description":"Consumers continue to spend, even as they take on more household debt, reflecting their continued optimism about the state of the U.S. economy.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/","og_site_name":"Commercial Property Executive","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive","article_published_time":"2017-02-20T15:01:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-09T04:53:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":199,"url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Dees Stribling","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cpexecutive","twitter_site":"@cpexecutive","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/"},"author":{"name":"Dees Stribling","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/dc1e9fa4ee0430d86f8e60cd697c953c"},"headline":"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise","datePublished":"2017-02-20T15:01:25+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-09T04:53:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/"},"wordCount":283,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg","keywords":["E-Commerce","Federal Reserve Bank","United States Census Bureau"],"articleSection":["National","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/","name":"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise - Commercial Property Executive","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg","datePublished":"2017-02-20T15:01:25+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-09T04:53:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/dc1e9fa4ee0430d86f8e60cd697c953c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg","width":"300","height":"199","caption":"Image via Flickr Creative Commons user Intel Free Press"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-online-retail-sales-consumer-debt-on-the-rise\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Economy Watch: Online Retail Sales, Consumer Debt On the Rise"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/","name":"Commercial Property Executive","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/dc1e9fa4ee0430d86f8e60cd697c953c","name":"Dees Stribling","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42add8af9e9229ed27332ad13f5b8c6f6ae89de868a41cf81baaac4ad46e589a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42add8af9e9229ed27332ad13f5b8c6f6ae89de868a41cf81baaac4ad46e589a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42add8af9e9229ed27332ad13f5b8c6f6ae89de868a41cf81baaac4ad46e589a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dees Stribling"},"url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/author\/dcstribling\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/05\/051812-EconWatch-Online-Shopping-user-IntelFreePress-300x199.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004167100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004167100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004167100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004531831,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004167100\/revisions\/1004531831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004041171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004167100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004167100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004167100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}