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Online ThanksGiving Sales Statistics: Up 39 Percent This Year

We had spotted some interesting Black Friday stats earlier, we spotted this today:

"According to IBM’s Coremetrics retail data, online Thanksgiving 2011 sales were up 39 percent over Thanksgiving 2010.

Mobile shopping also had a break out day on Turkey Day. The number of consumers using a mobile device to visit a retailer’s site reached a high of 15.2 percent, up from 6.45 percent in 2010. The number of consumers using their mobile device to make a purchase increased to 11.09 percent, up from 4.25 percent in 2010."

Statistics Source: TC

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