CNN is reporting that there are over 4 million people on online shopping sites per minute. People that are not happy with what they bought over the holiday or those that did not yet have a chance to shop are buying today online looking for cyber monday specials.
It is the day that e-tailers will furiously push big discounts, free gift cards, free shipping and any other gimmick they can think of to entice consumers to spend even more of their holiday shopping dollars online.
Shoppers seemed to be responding to these moves early Monday.
By 2:20 p.m. ET, more than 270 retailing Web sites tracked by Internet monitoring firm Akamai were drawing more than 4.3 million visitors per minute in North America.
Akamai said that its Net Usage Index — which monitors North American visitors to sites such as American Eagle Outfitters, Overstock.com, QVC.com and eBags.com — said traffic was up nearly 39% compared to the same time last year.
