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By Alistair Barr
(Reuters) – Online retail sales in the United States on the post-Thanksgiving shopping day known as “Black Friday” jumped 26 percent this year, led by Amazon.com Inc , ComScore said on Sunday.
Black Friday online sales reached $816 million, making it the heaviest spending day on the Internet so far in 2011, according to ComScore, a closely watched tracker of Internet activity.
Year-over-year growth on Black Friday in 2010 was 9 percent, so this year’s 26...Read Full Story
Online holiday spending has reached $23.82 billion, representing a 12 percent increase over the same time period last year, according to the latest report from comScore.
The most recent week (week ending Dec. 12) reached $5.31 billion in spending, an increase of 12 percent over the corresponding week last year. Monday, December 13, known as “Green Monday” (the second Monday in December when online spending has historically tended to peak), reached $954 million in spending, representing a...Read Full Story
Online holiday spending has reached $27.46 billion this season, marking a 12 percent increase over the same time period versus last year, according to a new report from comScore.
The most recent week (weekend ending Dec.17) reached $5.15 billion in spending, an increase of 14 percent compared to the same week last year, with four individual days surpassing $900 million, led by Green Monday (Monday, December 13) with $954 million and Free Shipping Day (Friday, December 17) with $942 million...Read Full Story
U.S. online holiday spending has reached $21.95 billion during the first 40 days of the season, an increase of 12 percent over the same time period as last year, according to the latest report from comScore.
The most recent week (week ending Dec. 10) reached $5.15 billion in spending, an increase of 11 percent versus the corresponding week last year, as two individual days each surpassed $900 million.
“Growth rates during the most recent week settled in at around 11 percent...Read Full Story
Although the stock market has still been moving up and (mostly) down in a disturbing manner this week, comScore's provided evidence that the ecommerce market is healthy again. According to comScore, ecommerce spending for the first quarter of this year was up ten percent on a year-over-year basis.
As the table to the right shows, online retail spending approached an impressive $34 billion for the quarter, and comScore's report emphasized that this is the first time since the second...Read Full Story
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