New Record for Online Shopping
A new one-day record for online shopping was set Dec. 12, exactly a year after the previous peak was achieved, according to a firm that tracks Internet sales.
On that day, $288 million worth of non-travel goods were sold on the Internet, according to ComScore Networks Inc., a Reston, Va., research firm. The former record, hit Dec. 12, 2001, was $262 million.
Online sales of non-travel items from Nov. 1 through Dec. 13 total about $7.1 billion, up 23% from the comparable period in 2001, ComScore officials said.
