Online shopping's 40% leap in 2002
Continuing reports on the strength of ecommerce this year include this News.com story:
Buoyed by a rising population of online shoppers and more liberal spending by online shopping veterans, e-commerce in the United States in 2002 blew away old spending records with a nearly 40 percent leap over 2001, according to preliminary results from one research firm.
Not counting auctions, online consumer sales leaped to about $74 billion in 2002, according to ComScore Networks.