2007 online holiday shopping sales up 19% over 2006
Retail stores may have had a hard time this holiday season, reporting 1% to 2% more sales than last year but online retailers were raking in the dough with sales reported to be 19% above 2006 figures during the November 1 to December 31 holiday shopping season.
comScore which keeps track of e-commerce sales reported spending reached $29.2 billion during that time frame which is a 19% increase over last year.
The company also reported that Monday, December 10, was the heaviest online shopping day of the year with $881 million in sales reported reported that day and $819 million spent on December 11.
Video games, consoles and accessories were reported as the fastest growing retail category, mainly driven by the Nintendo Wii.
Here’s to the continued success of online stores.
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