e-commerce accounts for 17% of total UK retail sales

Rob Clapp

An overview of UK internet retail sales (aka e-commerce) by month between 2006 and 2018.

Average weekly internet retail sales (aka e-commerce) in the UK reached nearly £1.2 billion (£1,197 million) in August 2018, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics. This was a rise of £150 million per week compared to August 2017. Internet retail sales in the UK made up 16.8% of total retail sales in August 2018, 1.4 percentage points (pp) higher than the previous year.

This follows strong and continual growth of internet retail sales since August 2007. Over this period, no month has recorded a year-on-year decline in either absolute levels or as a percentage of...

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