News: E-Tailers - A New Term for This Blogger
November 30th, 2005 by Laurie BarakSource: MSNBC
This is something new - I’ve never heard of the term “e-tailers”. Instead of retailers, which are your standard walk-in-and-buy-something stores, the phrase e-tailers has been coined for your standard shop-online stores.
Of course one of the world’s leading e-tailers is eBay. The day after Thanksgiving is a huge shopping day for many folks who head to the malls to get the after-holiday specials on holiday gifts. But this year, “Cyber Monday” was one of the biggest holiday shopping days.
Nielsen/NetRatings, an Internet research firm, reported that 27.7 million customers — both from home and work — clicked onto online shopping sites Monday, a 15 percent increase compared to Friday, the official start of the holiday season for store owners.
Here’s a list of the biggest e-tailers so far:
1. eBay, with 11.7 million shoppers
2. Amazon.com, 5.6 million shoppers
3. Walmart.com, 3.09 million shoppers
E-tailers are also enticing folks to shop at home by offering free shipping, free shipping with no minimum purchase or buy-one-get one free promotions.
Jupiter Research is projecting online sales to increase 18 percent to $26 billion in November and December, compared to last year’s 22 percent. Forrester Research says online sales will grow 25 percent, compared to last year’s 30 percent, to $18 billion. Forrester’s results cover the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
That’s a whole lot of clickin’ going on.
