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Post-Holiday Sales Up 12 Percent (Maybe More, Maybe Not)

Posted by TimSlavin at December 1, 2003

"Visa said retail spending on its cards was up 9 percent to more than $3.4 billion. The number of e-commerce transactions jumped 46 percent and online sales reached $338 million." Short item from Boston.com. A longer sourced article from MSNBC mentions that research firm comScore Networks Inc., reported online sales rose 38 percent to $200 million on Friday from $145 million a year ago. An MSNBC story from early November 2003 predicted online sales would skyrocket this season due to a decrease in consumer fears of online theft of credit card data, among other things.

Then again, MediaPost reports for the Thanksgiving week ended last Friday online sales were 1.2 billion USD while the New York Times says sales were basically flat. The one agreed upon winner is WalMart despite its recent legal troubles with illegal aliens and a customer stomped into unconciousness by a customer stampede Friday.

And on December 3rd, USA Today ran an Associated Press story with numbers for online sales.

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