the biggest ever online shopping day, just…
Dec 3, 2008
IMRG reports that Monday 1st December recorded the UK’s largest ever online shopping volumes, but the anticipated VAT-driven spike failed to materialise, leaving sales values and traffic volumes flat.
It all makes interesting reading, in a week when: Zavvi, has been forced to suspend web sales of DVDs, games and music products, Woolworths closes down, 247 Electrical does too, and Debenhams’ site crashes out of action (Debenhams had an availability rate of 28.01% between Thursday 20/11/2008 and Wednesday 26/11/2008, according to this Keynote Systems Performance Index.
***Shameless plug***: Salmon’s client Argos ranks pretty damn highly in said index 
That’s great for UK eCommerce. Here in the US we had sales grow 15 percent from last Cyber Monday. But analysts say that it’s not enough to make up for very weak November sales overall.
WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122831827531375837.html?mod=googlenews_wsj