{
    "statement": "in US retail e-commerce sales in Q2 2026, seasonally adjusted, up 12.2% from Q2 2025",
    "value_display": "$340.2B",
    "value_numeric": 340.2,
    "unit": "$B",
    "data_label": "Q2 2026",
    "data_period_end": "2026-06-30",
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales",
        "publisher": "US Census Bureau",
        "type": "official",
        "url": "https://www.census.gov/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html",
    "source_quote": "the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter of 2026, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $340.2 billion, an increase of 3.8 percent (±0.4 percent) from the first quarter of 2026.",
    "verification_note": "Read on census.gov Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales page (release CB26-133, 18 Aug 2026) and checked against the adjusted time series file tsadjustedsales.xlsx. Census notes that annual revisions of 28 Sep 2026 will appear in the Q3 2026 release on 19 Nov 2026.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": "±0.4% on the change from Q1 2026; ±0.9% on the change from Q2 2025",
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": {
        "columns": [
            "Quarter",
            "E-commerce sales (adjusted)",
            "Change from same quarter a year earlier"
        ],
        "rows": [
            [
                "Q2 2025",
                "$303.3B",
                "+5.0%"
            ],
            [
                "Q3 2025",
                "$310.8B",
                "+5.3%"
            ],
            [
                "Q4 2025",
                "$318.0B",
                "+5.9%"
            ],
            [
                "Q1 2026",
                "$327.9B",
                "+10.1%"
            ],
            [
                "Q2 2026",
                "$340.2B",
                "+12.2%"
            ]
        ]
    },
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-08-18",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "$340.2B",
            "note": "Q2 2026 preliminary estimate."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/us-ecommerce-sales",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/us-ecommerce-sales.csv"
}