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// December 23, 2014//
Consumers have continued to enjoy the convenience of online shopping this holiday season.
In the final week full week before Christmas, online spending rose 18 percent to $5.8 billion.
For this year’s holiday season (the first 51 days of the November-December shopping season), e-commerce spending from desktop computers rose 15 percent to $48.3 billion compared with the same period last year, according to Reston-based comScore.
The week began with two billion dollar days – Monday, Dec. 15 at $1.07 billion and Tuesday, Dec. 16 at $1.16 billion – while Free Shipping Day (Thursday, Dec. 18) saw $926 million in desktop spending.
“This final week of online holiday shopping before Christmas was very strong, finishing off the season on a high note and virtually guaranteeing e-commerce spending will outperform our pre-season forecast,” comScore chairman emeritus Gian Fulgoni said in a statement.
