US Online Shopping Expected to Surge

The day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is sometimes the biggest shopping day of the year, and considered the official start of the holiday buying season. The National Retail Federation (NRF) has estimated that about 135.8 million consumers will be shopping during the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, compared with 133.7 million in 2014. 2015 is the first year that NRF asked about plans to shop on Cyber Monday.  Nearly 80 percent of this year’s holiday shoppers, or about 183.8...

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