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Article: Your shopping cart contains $733 million; Cyber Monday total a 21% increase from 2006
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 29, 2007
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Shoppers who jumped online Monday to buy holiday gifts spent $733
million, a 21 percent jump from a year ago, according to an Internet
research firm.
Employers deserve some of the credit for the huge run-up, with
six out of 10 shoppers clicking away at their workplaces, according
to ComScore, based in Chicago and Reston, Va.
The number of Cyber Monday buyers jumped 38 percent from last
year, but the average amount they spent declined 12 percent.
The decline reflected retailers' discounts and the tendency of
new buyers' ...
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