MediaTel Insight: Ecommerce Sales Hit New High In 2003

US online retail sales increased by 25% to almost $56 billion in 2003, according to figures from BizRate.com. It is estimated that American consumers spent a total of $18.38 billion online in the fourth quarter of which $8.59 billion was outlayed in the month leading up to Christmas.

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