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Seeking a silver lining: Online fares better in buying plans than offline

67% of respondents to a survey told PriceGrabber in June they are planning to trim their spending compared to 57% who said so in January. Fewer consumers said they are cutting back online shopping vs. offline: 47% are cutting back online and 63% offline.

Posted 07/08/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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No-growth web sales are taking share from shrinking stores, comScore says

ComScore’s Gian Fulgoni notes that while comScore’s measure of online spending showed no year-over-year growth in the first quarter, total retail sales that could be comparable to what is sold online fell 8%.

Posted 05/14/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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The Commerce Department adds a grim final chapter to the 2008 sales story

No matter how you cut it, retail sales had a bad year in 2008. Sales excluding autos, gasoline stations, restaurants, bars, and fuel grew only 1.4% from the year before—and much of that growth was from grocery price hikes. Web sales, meanwhile, grew 6%.

Posted 02/12/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Sport & Fitness races ahead of other segments in web holiday sales growth

Fitness, video games and apparel were the only three of 14 retail segments comScore tracks that registered higher year-over-year online sales during the latter part of this holiday season.

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Consumers kept their wallets closed last week, both online and offline

Shoppers remained tentative last week, with online sales down 2% vs. a year ago, comScore reports, and store sales virtually flat—down 0.3%—compared to the same week last year, according to ShopperTrak.

Posted 12/17/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Lower, but still strong, growth for holiday web sales, Forrester predicts

Online retail sales this holiday season will grow 12% to $44 billion, predicts Forrester Research Inc., more than six times the growth rate of total retail sales, which the National Retail Federation projects to be 1.9%.

Posted 10/22/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Thanksgiving week dishes up a strong start to holiday online shopping

Researchers report strong growth in online sales for Thanksgiving week. Sales were up 22% on the day after Thanksgiving from a year earlier, comScore reports. That outpaced the 17% growth for the first three weeks of November, comScore says.

Posted 11/26/2007Don DavisPost a comment

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Annual web sales shoot up by 17% for 1-800-Flowers.com

For fiscal 2007, 1-800-Flowers reports that the web accounted for about 55% of total sales. Based on that percentage, 1-800-Flowers grew its annual web sales to about $501.9 million, an increase of 16.6% from web sales of $430.3 million in fiscal 2006.

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