First quarter 2017 e-commerce sales rose 3.7 times faster than overall retail year-on-year

Retail e-commerce sales for the first quarter of 2018 were up 3.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017 and up 16.4 percent year-on-year. E-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2018 accounted for 9.5 percent of total sales, up from 8.5 percent a year ago.

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