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Article: Web retailers selling idea of `Cyber Monday'.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2006
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Byline: Sandra Jones
CHICAGO _ Once mainly the domain of upstart Internet retailers, Cyber Monday is now synonymous with something a little more traditional: deals, deals and more deals to keep consumers spending at established stores.
The term Cyber Monday, coined last year by a retail trade group, was originally intended to describe the surge in online shopping that now takes place the Monday after Thanksgiving.
In the past, that was the day that people sat in front of their computer screens at work and shopped at mainly Internet retailing sites, like Amazon.com and Overstock.com, when they got tired of tromping through the mall.
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