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Article: Cyber Monday shopping growing in popularity
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- December 2, 2008
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When Nory Jones couldn't find the comforter she wanted on Black
Friday, the University of Maine associate professor of management
information looked to her calendar for help: She shopped on Cyber
Monday.
"Today I went online, went into overstock.com, and it was so easy
to find one," she said Monday afternoon of her sought-after
comforter. "With free shipping, too."
Jones is one of a growing number of shoppers taking advantage of
online sales and promotions such as free shipping offered the Monday
after Thanksgiving, or Cyber Monday.
Marketing surveys estimated that 84.6 million shoppers would buy
online Monday from home or the office - up from 72 million last year
and 60 million in 2006, ...