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Web Extra: Cyber Monday Continues to Grow Web Extra: Cyber Monday Continues to Grow

By CB Garrett

Cyber Monday is the biggest online shopping day of the year.
Retailers such as Target, Best Buy, and Amazon have slashed prices.
Which makes for the busiest shipping week of the holiday season.
And just recently, online shopping has surpassed shopping at a store.
A recent Deloite survey shows shopping trends.
Online shopping has increased the last two years.
Online shoppers may have to pay a little more in taxes this year, as the next map shows.
Still, total holiday online shopping increased by $26 billion this year.

By CB Garrett, SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – Cyber Monday has continued to progress and is a bigger shopping day than Black Friday. There has been a large overall increase in online sales during the holiday season compared to in store purchases. There is expected to be a $26 billion dollar increase in online shopping around the holiday season.

States are also imposing sales taxes on online purchases to capitalize on the rise in online shopping, although New York is not currently among those states.

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