Online Shoppers Set Records
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Researchers report Web shoppers are busier and happier than last year, as the holiday approaches and online sales finally slow.
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Online retailer Amazon.com Inc.  AMZN.O on Monday said it set a one-day selling record this  year and logged its busiest holiday shopping season in its 10  years.
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By INTERVIEWS BY Daisy Hildyard  British shoppers spent [pound]150m on the internet last Monday, as high street stores admitted their sales were down. Are we all online shoppers now?    Rob Harris, 25    CHEMIST   Car insurance.
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Online shopping traffic certainly increased on Monday over the previous Friday, according to sources directly involved in generating that traffic, though surveys show shoppers may not be spenders.
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By Mark Albright, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Feb. 2--KISSIMMEE -- Internet shopping sales soared 24 percent to  $100-billion in 2006, but it's hardly blues skies on the industry horizon.
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Bargain hunters who could not wait till the traditional Boxing Day sales have been busy online during Christmas Day, retailers say.
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A surprising amount of shoppers are willing to buy from spammers, study finds.
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Online  buying continues to snowball, according to the results of a recent America Online survey. This year, for the first time, Americans who regularly use the Internet for shopping -- researching or buying products at least once a month -- will do more shopping online than at shopping malls and stores, from catalogues and by phone, the survey found.
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As a record number of people buy holiday gifts online, consumers should take steps to reduce their risk of having their personal details stolen.
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Internet retailer Amazon.com have reported record holiday sales, coaxed by hot demand for electronic consumer goods such as the Apple iPod music player.
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E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week&#39;s brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore.Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a &quot;flurry&quot; of online spending last week in the U.S., keeping retail e-sales strong, comScore said Sunday.Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 -- the first 51 days of the holiday season -- U.S. shoppers have spent $26.3 billion online, up 19 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.So far, the heaviest online shopping day this season was Dec. 10, the so-called &quot;Green Monday,&quot; a term coined by eBay for the second Monday in December, which the vendor has identified as particularly heavy e-sales day. U.S. shoppers spent $881 million that day, up 33 percent from the corresponding day in 2006.By contrast, Cyber Monday, the first workday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., ranks as this holiday season&#39;s ninth heaviest online shopping day, with $733 million in sales. Cyber Monday is considered the day when holiday online shopping kicks into high gear.Overall, comScore expects this year&#39;s holiday season to generate about $29.5 billion in online spending, which would represent a 20 percent increase from the same period in 2006.
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Market research firm reports online spending was strong this holiday season, up 19 percent from last year.
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The value of UK online sales more than doubles, as a growing number of people choose to shop via the internet, data shows.
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Nearly nine out of 10 consumers say they have had problems conducting transactions online, according to a new survey.
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Last-minute shoppers flocked to the Internet, leading online retail sales to surpass estimates for the holiday season.
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Online shopping has become hugely popular among Britons in the run-up to Christmas, research suggests.
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Online shoppers in the United States spent &#36;23.2 billion during the holidays, excluding travel, up 25 percent from the 2003 season, according to a new survey from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive and Nielsen/NetRatings.