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Article: Online Spending Reaches $13.8 Billion for 2001 Holiday Season, According to Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 7, 2002
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NEW YORK and ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The 2001 online holiday shopping season comes to a close with Americans spending $13.8 billion during the eight weeks in November and December, according to the eSpending report released today by Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive(SM) and Nielsen//NetRatings.
Preliminary results reveal that online spending grew 15 percent year-over-year, with consumers reporting that 13 percent of their holiday shopping budget was spent online. By comparison, during the 2000 holiday season, Americans spent more than $12 billion online, based on eCommercePulse, a monthly survey of 36,000 Internet users by Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings. ...