Source: Insider Intelligence | eMarketer, June 2023 - June 2023
Note: excludes travel and event tickets, payments such as bill pay, taxes, or money transfers, restaurant sales, food services and drinking place sales, gambling and other vice goods sales
Additional Note: Sporting goods includes team sporting equipment, guns, ammunition, camping gear, home fitness equipment, bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, and specialty sports apparel and footwear (e.g., fencing jackets, bowling shoes, cleats); it excludes generic athletic apparel, other athletic footwear, uniforms, and large motorized recreational vehicles (e.g., all-terrain vehicles, golf carts). eMarketer benchmarks its US total retail sales figures against US Department of Commerce data from 2020 onward. The last full year measured was 2022.
Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of data from other research firms and government agencies, historical trends, reported and estimated revenues of major online retailers, consumer online buying trends, and macro-level economic conditions.