Online shopping jumps 16.4 percent on Christmas Day
IBM found that online shopping jumped 16.4 percent on Christmas Day over last year, and the dollar amount of those purchases that were made using mobile devices leaped almost 173 percent.
Shopper numbers fell 8.7 percent over the weekend compared with the corresponding days last year, signalling consumers are still holding back on spending with just three shopping days left to Christmas, a survey showed on Monday.