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Billion Dollar Day: Cyber Monday Rings In $1.25B in Sales

We had spotted some black friday statistics - we spotted this today:

"Cyber Monday officially rules the U.S. online-shopping season, having racked up $1.25 billion in 2011 sales--a 22 percent increase over the previous year, according to ComScore data.

Yesterday's spending reflected both an 11 percent increase in the number of people shopping online and a significant jump in how much they spent. More than 10 million people bought something online yesterday, the online-marketing research firm said. Those shoppers made an average of 1.9 purchases apiece, in total worth an average of nearly $125--a nine percent increase over per capita spending on Cyber Monday 2010."

Statistics Source: CNet

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