washington us online retail sales are expected to grow to 294 billion this year with nearly onethird of the total from mobile devices a research firm said monday forrester research said it sees online sales growing at a pace of 95 percent from 2013 to 2018 which would bring total online sales to 414 billion or 11 percent of all retail sales this year mobile commerce sales on phones or tablets are likely to hit 87 billion according to forrester the web keeps doing what it has always done well it provides huge assortments of products at comparable often lower prices than physical stores with 247 access and often free shipping said research analyst sucharita mulpuru mulpuru said the figures include 30 retail categories and that doesnt even include another 28 billion in additional mobile transactions on sites and apps like uber and dominos pizza that arent even in that aforementioned mobile commerce number mulpuru in a blog post said the growth in ecommerce does not mean that traditional brickandmortar retailing is dead yes old store concepts located in b and c centers are absolutely in peril but new fresh concepts in a properties are doing quite well she said while there are dying shopping centers that need to be razed and reconstructed as office parks or farmland or whatever there are malls even indoor malls which are doing absolutely fine afp published on may 13 2014 at 0807 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app forrester research retail mobile devices sucharita mulpuru online sales homenewsmobile driving up us online retail sales study