Online retailing racked up its second week of $3 billion sales for the week ending Dec. 18, comScore Networks Inc. reports. Online sales for the week grew 29% to $3.03 billion from $2.35 billion in the corresponding week a year ago, comScore says. Sales the week before were $3.07 billion.
By comparison, total retail sales for the week ending Dec. 17 grew 2.1% vs. the corresponding week a year ago, reports ShopperTrak’s National Retail Sales Estimate.
Online travel sales for week ending Dec. 18 were up 25% to $1.06 billion from $851 million in the corresponding week a year ago, comScore reports.
While comScore reports weekly sales on a three-week lag, it reports that sales from Nov. 1 through Christmas totaled $18.11 billion, up 25% from $14.5 billion in the same period in 2004.
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