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Released: December 07, 2011
Shoppers ring up online sales surge
Source: Hadley Malcolm, USA Today
There’s no shortage of shoppers this holiday season — at least online.
Consumers spent $18.7 billion online in the first month of the holiday season, Nov. 1 to Dec. 1, a 15% increase over the same time period last year, according to Web-tracking firm ComScore.
And online shopping will continue to increase in the next two weeks, before stores “regain the share of the wallet” the week before Christmas, says Cameron Glass, a retail strategist at consultants Kurt Salmon.
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