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Strategies & Market Trends : The New Economy and its Winners
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From: Bill Harmond5/13/2014 1:32:41 PM
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US retail sales flat:

reuters.com

eCommerce strong:

13-May-14 13:16 ET In Play comScore reports $56.1 bln in Q1 2014 desktop-based U.S. retail e-commerce spending, up 12% from prior year (31.90 -0.59) : comScore (SCOR) today released its estimates of Q1 2014 U.S. digital commerce sales. Q1 2014 saw desktop e-commerce spending rise 12 percent year-over-year to $56.1 billion, marking the eighteenth consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth and fourteenth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. M-commerce spending on smartphones and tablets added $7.3 billion for the quarter, up 23 percent vs. year ago, for a digital commerce spending total of $63.4 billion in the first quarter. Other highlights from Q1 2014 include:

The top-performing online product categories were: Apparel & Accessories, Consumer Packaged Goods, Sport & Fitness, Digital Content & Subscriptions, and Home & Garden. Each category grew at least 13 percent vs. year ago.

Desktop E-commerce accounted for 11.7 percent of consumers' discretionary spending, the highest first quarter share on record.

Of the additional $7.3 billion in mobile commerce (m-commerce), purchasing using smartphones accounted for 62 percent vs. 38 percent from tablets.

Amazon 2x eCommerce growth:

13-May-14 08:45 ET In Play Amazon.com: ChannelAdvisor reports AMZN April same store sales rose 27% versus March +26.2%
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