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Article: Big boxes take a big bite of Cyber Monday: Traditional retailers are joining e-commerce sites to profit from surge in online shopping the Monday after Thanksgiving, when an estimated 61 million logged on for Internet deals.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- November 28, 2006
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Byline: Sandra Jones
Nov. 28--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 people sat in front of their computer screens at work and shopped at Internet retailing sites, like Amazon.com and Overstock.com, when they got tired of tromping through the mall. But on Monday, traditional ...