Retailers last chance for Cyber Monday Online Deals 2009
New York: Retailers last chance for Cyber Monday Online Deals 2009: Retailers have now come to online sales now for the Cyber Monday deals 2009. It was Black Friday and now they stepped it up Monday.
Amazon.com was discounting the Apple iPod Touch 8GB for $158, $20 less than Sunday and $40 off the retail price of about $200. At the same time Target.com offered a deal Monday for a Garmin GPS system for $186.99, down from $249.99. Free shipping was also prevalent.
IThough the Web is only about 10 percent of the holiday shopping pie, but it’s seen most of the growth so far this year - an encouraging sign after last year’s first online sales decline.
Online holiday sales is expected to rise 8 percent to $44.7 billion. So far, the weekend results are “strong reinforcement of how Web sales continue to outpace store sales.”
Online sales account for about 7 percent of retailers’ total sales, though that increases to about 10 percent during the holidays. So, what are you looking for? Go and shop online this Cyber Monday.