e-Business
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$2.8 Billion
Spent Online In January
Recognized e-searchers are coming together to produce some telling numbers about
e-commerce. The National Retail Federation, Forrester Research and Greenfield online have
come up with a monthly e-commerce retail index showing that U.S. consumers spent $2.8
billion Online in January. The dominant category was airline tickets, followed by computer
hardware, books, software and apparel. "Shopping online is here to stay, as evidenced
by the fact that in January online consumers spent more than half of what was spent online
during the entire holiday season," said David Cooperstein, director of Forrester's
Online Retail Research. Media products--books, music, videos and software--accounted for
$653.6 million, or 23.3 percent of the month's purchases. The combined air, hotel and car
rental business booked online in January equals $582.8 million, or nearly 21 percent of
all online purchases for the month. Here's a detailed breakdown of how much and where
consumers spent in January.
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