{"id":1004187737,"date":"2017-08-18T06:57:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004187737"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:39:17","slug":"economy-watch-internet-sales-keep-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-internet-sales-keep-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch: Internet Sales Keep Climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By D.C. Stribling<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004160420\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/11\/e-commerce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004160420\" data-attachment-id=\"1004160420\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-e-commerce-enjoys-robust-sales-on-black-friday\/e-commerce\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/11\/e-commerce.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"e-commerce\" 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\/2016\/11\/e-commerce.jpg?w=800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004160420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/11\/e-commerce.jpg\" alt=\"Image via Flickr Creative Commons user Intel Free Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/11\/e-commerce.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/11\/e-commerce.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/11\/e-commerce.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004160420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr Creative Commons user Intel Free Press<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since the dawn of Internet commerce, seasonally adjusted sales using that platform have moved in one direction: up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That trend continued in the second quarter, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday, with U.S. retail e-commerce sales up 4.8 percent compared with the first quarter.\u00a0(Unadjusted Internet sales tend to bottom out in the first quarter and peak in the fourth, like all retail sales.)<\/p>\n<h2>Year-Over-Year Jump<\/h2>\n<p>As usual, the bureau adjusts for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, which have been fairly modest in recent years. Altogether, second-quarter Internet sales totaled $111.5 billion. That&#8217;s also a 16.2 percent increase from the same period one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, total retail sales for the second quarter of 2017 were estimated at nearly $1.3 trillion, an 0.5 percent increase from the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>As of the second quarter, Internet purchases accounted for roughly 8 percent of all retail sales, the bureau said. At the current pace, adjusted e-commerce sales volume is on track to reach 10 percent of sales within a year. Ten years ago, Internet transactions accounted for only about 3.5 percent of retail sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By D.C. Stribling Since the dawn of Internet commerce, seasonally adjusted sales using that platform have moved in one direction: up.\u00a0 That trend continued in the second quarter, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday, with U.S. retail e-commerce sales up 4.8 percent compared with the first quarter.\u00a0(Unadjusted Internet sales tend to bottom out in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":1004160420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23891,21742,21749],"tags":[32915],"class_list":["post-1004187737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-latest","category-retail","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Economy Watch: Internet Sales Keep Climbing - 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-internet-sales-keep-climbing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Economy Watch: Internet Sales Keep Climbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By D.C. 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