A Bunch of You Clicked the "Buy" Button on Black Friday
Officially, the holiday shopping e-commerce boom isn’t supposed to kick off until tomorrow, on “Cyber Monday”. But that’s silly and inaccurate: Americans have spent $11.6 billion online shopping since November 2, says Comscore. That’s a 13 percent bump over last year’s total. And on “Black Friday”, when shoppers are traditionally supposed to be storming brick-and-mortar stores, plenty of you headed to Amazon and other online outlets: E-commerce sales were up 9 percent, to $648 million.
