When was cyber monday 2010

That data is based on a survey of 51 online retailers, and the majority of those said to be offering Cyber Monday deals aren't targeting the Monday after Thanksgiving specifically. Only 21 of the 51 retailers surveyed on behalf of Shop.

The number of people shopping online on the Monday after Thanksgiving has grown steadily since , when an estimated 59 million said they would shop online on that day, to , when that number jumped to 96 million, Davis said. Furthermore, she said, several online retailers are offering deals that are specific to Cyber Monday.

Among those with deals, she said, are eBags. But all of those sites were offering deals on Friday, too, meaning they weren't holding out for Cyber Monday promotions.

Perhaps the most interesting thing to be learned from Cyber Monday is that Mondays -- after Thanksgiving or not -- are usually big days for e-commerce. People used to think that Cyber Monday was big because workers were using high-speed office internet connections to do their online shopping, he said. Now that two-thirds of Americans have broadband connections at home, according to the U.

Federal Communications Commission , that theory has been pretty much debunked. But still, for whatever reason, about half of all online purchases happen from an office internet connection, Lipsman said. Holiday Shopping. Share this on:. Filed under: Web. Part of complete coverage on. The missing gift dilemma. Subscribe to Trends.

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Web sites originated from work computers, up slightly from last year. Buying from home comprised the majority of the remaining share Web sites from international locations accounted for 6. On Cyber Monday, Additionally, mobile sales were up as well, reaching 6.

Interestingly, more people flocked to mobile devices to shop on Black Friday than Cyber Monday. On Cyber Monday mobile traffic averaged