US retail ecommerce holiday sales (excluding travel) will reach $54.5 billion in 2012, up 16.8% over last year, according to eMarketer estimates. This will be the fourth consecutive year that online holiday sales (defined as sales in November and December) post annual growth in the mid-to-high teens, after plummeting 8.2% in 2008 during the depths of the Great Recession. Read the rest at eMarketer.
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