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Sport & Fitness Ranks as Top-Growing Online Category for the Season
comScore , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released online spending data by category for the online holiday shopping season, which showed that trends in online spending outperformed offline in several key product categories. The study compared comScore e-commerce data to [...]

Only 56 percent have begun their holiday shopping, slowest pace in three years
With money concerns looming, more than two-thirds (69%) of Americans are changing their family’s holiday gift-giving traditions this year, according to Consumer Reports latest Holiday Shopping Poll.
Among the changes, 37 percent of families are setting a spending limit for gifts, 14 percent [...]

Comscore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for November 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The official start to the holiday shopping season unleashed droves of Americans on retail sites, propelling several categories, including Toys, [...]

Today, Integra Telecom Inc., a facilities-based, integrated communications carrier for business, recorded an increase in business Internet traffic of 30 percent compared to two weeks ago. The spike in Internet usage includes [...]

With the economy faltering, shoppers will turn to new websites even more, according to Internet shopping experts.
According to the Wall Street Journal last week, “Analysts are predicting sharper price cuts on flat-panel televisions and Blu-ray players in the coming weeks.” Such consumer product price volatility can cause buyers to hesitate.
Because prices are always changing, [...]

Tightwad Tod Marks Shares his Tips for Striking Gold on Black Friday
Black Friday is Not the Only Day to Save this Holiday Shopping Season
With Black Friday just days away, Tod Marks, Consumer Reports’ shopping expert and author of the Tightwad Tod blog (www.ConsumerReports.org/tightwadtod), is sharing some advice that can help shoppers get a better [...]

Rank

Change

Product

Shoppers

Weekly Change

1

-

Nintendo Wii

334,546

41%

2

5

Xbox 360

193,916

119%

3

2

iPod Nano

175,958

76%

4

-2

Guitar Hero: World Tour

165,812

28%

5

-1

Nintendo DS Lite

164,841

60%

6

-

iPod Touch

156,088

60%

7

-4

Wii Fit

152,862

34%

8

-

Playstation 3

111,605

38%

9

2

Bakugan

108,154

86%

10

-

Garmin GPS

98,560

26%

11

7

Mario Kart

96,914

154%

12

NR

Wii Music

93,293

817%

13

-1

Rockband 2

75,988

47%

14

9

Twilight Soundtrack

73,285

141%

15

2

PSP

72,863

83%

16

5

Kung Fu Panda (DVD)

72,017

123%

17

-4

The Dark Knight (DVD)

69,911

67%

18

-4

Little People (Toys)

66,835

61%

19

NR

Gears of War 2

62,441

183%

20

-4

Leapfrog Leapster

60,700

49%

21

1

Wall-E (DVD)

59,457

87%

22

2

Loving Family Dollhouse

57,501

116%

23

NR

Call of Duty: World at War

56,545

572%

24

-5

Elmo Live

55,994

49%

25

-16

Tinkerbell (DVD)

55,418

-30%

The 25 most viewed products across Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, CircuitCity.com, Target.com, Toysrus.com and Walmart.com during [...]