BloombergUS shoppers spent US$9.2 billion online on Cyber Monday — up 17 percent from a year earlier and a record — boosting an already robust holiday shopping season. Extreme weather across the continental US gave consumers plenty of reason to shop from the coziness of their own homes. While Cyber Monday remains the biggest online spending day of the year, shoppers increasingly favor buying online from the start of the holiday season, rather than waiting for the day’s specials. The shopping season is also shorter this year with six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas than last year. Adobe said big e-commerce platforms such as Amazon.com Inc would benefit the most from the surge in sales.

Source: Taipei Times December 03, 2019 15:56 UTC