Gift purchases via Internet increased dramatically this Christmas. CNN quotes ComScore Networks, an e-commerce market research firm in Reston, Virginia, as saying that online sales were 43% higher for the week ending 26 December than during the same period last year. "ComScore expects total online retail spending for the key holiday period of November and December to be up" 25%-30% - "to between $12.1 billion and $12.6 billion." Not clear if that estimate is US only...
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