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US Online Retail Sales Growing Strong,
Estimated over 300 Billion Dollars by 2010
(August 14 2004)
- US online retail sales
are on a strong growth track, and will likely hit 316
billion dollars by 2010, a technology research firm said.
Forrester
Research pegged US online sales at some 144 billion dollars
this year, and sees a 14 percent annual growth rate that
would bring the Internet sector to some 12 percent of all US
retail sales, from less than two percent currently.
US
government data showed 2003 online sales at 54.9 billion
dollars, representing about 1.6 percent of all retail sales
last year.
By
Forrester's calculation, online retail sales will make up
seven percent of the total for the United States in 2004.
Forrester
said it sees travel as one of the biggest categories,
growing to some 119 billion dollars by 2010, to be followed
by home products (43 billion), and apparel (28 billion).
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