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In their thirst for evidence on this issue, commentators seized on the recent report by the Census Bureau, which found that average household income rose by 5.2% in 2015.
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It is certain that the Census procedures, which lump the online sales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with "'non-store retailers" like food trucks, can mask major changes in individual retail categories.
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It seems likely that Census simply misclassifies a large chunk of online sales.
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More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.
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So, despite all the talk about drone deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a " huge antitrust problem, " the Census data suggest
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Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.
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The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.
2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
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The turmoil on the ground in physical retail is hard to square with the Census data.
2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
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Unfortunately, part of the explanation is that the Census retail data are unreliable.
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