Ask just about any research company that tracks online spending about this holiday season and you will get bombarded with cheer: “good,” “strong,” “robust,” and “surprisingly strong” are among the adjectives used to describe online shopping activity this month and last. The latest indicator is a report on the holiday season-to-date: $24.6 billion has been spent online, for a 15-percent increase over the same period last year, according to comScore. For the most recent week, ending Dec. 9, online spending reached $5.9 billion, an increase of 15 percent over the corresponding week last year.
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Online Cash Registers in Holiday Overdrive
Posted by: Erika Morphy December 15, 2011 10:07 AMAsk just about any research company that tracks online spending about this holiday season and you will get bombarded with cheer: “good,” “strong,” “robust,” and “surprisingly strong” are among the adjectives used to describe online shopping activity this month and last. The latest indicator is a report on the holiday season-to-date: $24.6 billion has been spent online, for a 15-percent increase over the same period last year, according to comScore. For the most recent week, ending Dec. 9, online spending reached $5.9 billion, an increase of 15 percent over the corresponding week last year.