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This achievement had already been reached within the first half of this year.

According to some of the latest data that has been issued from comScore, the estimates about the first half of this year are that the total sales over mobile commerce broke the $10 billion mark within that time period.

These figures reflect the transactions that were completed within the United States, alone.

According to the report from comScore, the total that was reached within the first two quarters in terms of mobile commerce sales in the United States over smartphones and tablets was an estimated $10.6 billion. That announcement was first made by the company when it released its figures on Tuesday.

Purchases over smartphones made up the majority of the mobile commerce sales totals.

The data showed that mobile commerce purchases over smartphones made up $6.7 billion of the total for the first six months of the year. Tablets contributed the remaining $3.9 billion. That said, it is important to point out that there are approximately twice as many smartphone users as there are tablet users in the United States, which can help to show why the total for the smaller device was notably higher.

Overall the actual commercial purchases made over mobile commerce on smartphones were responsible for the final total, whereas, over tablets included other sectors and forms of shopping.

Moreover, it should also be pointed out that the $10.6 billion mobile commerce sales total still makes up only just shy of 10 percent of the online shopping sales as a whole. This, despite the fact that the first iPhone as released six years ago and, therefore, has provided shoppers with a means of purchasing over wireless devices for more than half of a decade.

Also important to understand about the comScore mobile commerce data is that the figures that were assembled do not include those that were made via mobile payments. Those would involve the sales that are completed within a brick and mortar shop, but where the smartphone was used as a payment method. It was only the purchases made exclusively over the small screen devices that were taken into consideration.

Mobile commerce startup breaks the mold

A new mobile commerce startup called Boxed aims to make wholesale goods more easily obtainable for consumers. Typically, people have to go to large, membership-based department stores in order to purchase bulk goods at low prices, but these stores do not exist on every corner. Consumers can typically find a wide variety wholesale goods online, but the costs associated with shipping these goods mitigates any savings they could see. Boxed intends to change this by offering consumers with a way to purchase and receive wholesale products at a low cost.

Boxed provides free shipping to orders over $75

Boxed officially launched this week and is currently restricted to the eastern half of the U.S. Using the application, consumers can purchase a wide variety of products and have these products shipped directly to their home. Orders exceeding $75 will receive free, two-day shipping. The concept behind Boxed is to provide consumers with all the convenience of a wholesale department store without the auxiliary expenses associated with such stores.

Company holds its own inventory

Boxed is not just a mobile commerce platform. Behind the application, the company boasts of its own warehouse that stores approximately 500 unique products at any given time. This is somewhat different from the trend that has emerged in the mobile commerce scene. Companies like eBay and Google have been partnering with retailers in order to provide expedited shipping of products without actually having to keep their own inventories. Boxed, however, believes that holding its own inventory and fulfilling shipments is a better way to provide consumers with the services they are interested in.

Mobile commerce continues to evolve

Many trends have begun to emerge in the mobile commerce sector, but mobile commerce cannot be defined by any of these trends on their own. The constant evolution of the mobile space has provided mobile commerce with a lot of room to grow and companies like Boxed have been able to exploit this to their advantage. Boxed aims to offer a new service to consumers that may appeal to people’s interest in convenience and efficiency.