Consumers shopped heavily online in the second quarter as the pandemic accelerated the ongoing shift to the channel.
Second-quarter retail e-commerce sales in the U.S. grew by almost a third (31.8%) from the previous quarter and were 44.5% year over year, per the US Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce (DOC), according to a report by Emarketer.
Online sales totaled $211.51 billion the quarter (accounting for 16.1% of all retail sales), up from $160.41 billion in the year-ago period. Strong e-commerce growth, however, wasn’t enough to offset losses from brick-and-mortar closures due to the pandemic as total retail sales dropped 3.9% from the prior quarter, the report said.
Source: Chain Storeage
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