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Article: Online retailers see Thanksgiving surge; Thursday's sales, excluding travel, shot up 100% to $133 million
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2004
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NEW YORK (AP) - Computer-savvy consumers did plenty of online
shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend, giving companies like
Amazon.com and walmart.com the same kickoff to the holiday season as
department stores and malls had.
The pickup in business on the Web was the result of online
merchants using marketing tricks like their brick and mortar
counterparts - plying consumers with special discounts to get them to
shop early.
Online sales excluding travel shot up 100 percent to $133 million
on Thanksgiving Day compared to the same day last year, said comScore
Networks Inc., an Internet research company. On Friday, online sales
hit $250 million, up 41 percent from a year ago.
"We certainly ...