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Online spending more than doubled to $10.7 billion during the shopping season just past, according to a Goldman/PC Data study released Tuesday.
The study said consumer online spending for the last week of December rose to $878 million, from $542 million a year earlier.
Cameron Meierhoefer, Internet analyst for Reston, Va.-based research agency PC Data, attributed the surge to “strong and early Web spending,” especially on apparel, and “an impressive post-Christmas kick.”
But spending growth was not spread evenly.
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