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8.9%
8.9% -- ecommerce share of total retail sales for U.S. retail e-commerce sector (Q2 2017)
According to the U.S. Census Bureau report for Q2 2017, e-commerce sales accounted for 8.9% of total U.S. retail sales.
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8.9%
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Q2 2017
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U.S. Census Bureau
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https://disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com/2017/08/no-slowdown-in-growth-of-e-commerce.html ↗
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No Slowdown In Growth Of e-Commerce Sales
It seems nearly every company reporting earnings now references a strategy to deal with Amazon (AMZN) due to Amazon's command of e-commerce sales. Beyond the simple delivery of packages and hard goods, AMZN is moving into many other areas like grocery, air transportation, etc. I discussed this in a …
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U.S. Census Bureau quarterly retail e-commerce sales report for Q2 2017; share of total retail sales, cited verbatim in secondary blog post
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U.S. retail e-commerce sector: 8.9% ecommerce share of total retail sales. Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Q2 2017). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/q2-2017-us-ecommerce-share-retail-sales
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