U.S. Christmas shopping season, online sales grew 15%

December 24 pm news, MasterCard SpendingPulse sector consulting company's report released Thursday, as of December 23, Christmas shopping season this year, U.S. online sales have increased by 15%; this data highlights the online retail market increasingly important Laptop battery position.

SpendingPulse report shows that in October 31 to December 23 period, U.S. online retail sales reached 36.4 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 31.5 billion U.S. dollars last year increased by 15%. Although the share of the overall retail sales is still small, but the store retail sales increased more than expected.

Retailers Association of America said last week in November and December of this year's U.S. retail sales expected to grow 3.3%, reaching 451.4 billion U.S. dollars.

SpendingPulse said that a large number of online sales come from apparel, accounting for online retail this holiday shopping season, 25.7% of the total, about 7.3 billion. Overall, this year's Christmas shopping season so far, the network clothing sales in the U.S. share of total apparel sales was 18.9%, 16.9% higher than the same period last year.

Vice president of research and analysis SpendingPulse Michael McNamara (Michael McNamara), said the past few weeks, most parts of the United States experienced a cold and wet weather, allowing consumers to increase purchases of warm clothing for the retailer brought not a small income. Cold weather also makes a lot of people take home shopping approach.

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SpendingPulse data show that the Christmas shopping season so far this year, daily online sales increased 11%, electronic products grew 12.2%, jewelry, relatively modest growth, only 4.5%. A total of 6 days in a single day online sales over one billion U.S. dollars, November 30 and December 1 to 1.1 billion daily average, and December 14, 15, 16 consecutive days over 10 billion U.S. dollars. Last year a total of only 3 days of one-day online sales exceed 10 billion U.S. dollars.

This year the Monday after Thanksgiving, which is Nov. 29, many online retailers offer a substantial discount, the day sales of $ 99,300,000, an increase of 25.3%. The Friday after Thanksgiving is to achieve a 34.5% year on year growth in online retail will reach 597 million.

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