{"id":1169,"date":"2012-01-05T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T08:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2012-01-05T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T08:32:18","slug":"us-online-holiday-spending-up-15-comscore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/1169\/us-online-holiday-spending-up-15-comscore\/","title":{"rendered":"US online holiday spending up 15%: Comscore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. online sales for the 2011 holiday season rose 15 percent to hit an all-time high, according to data firm comScore.<\/p>\n<p>Retail e-commerce sales in November and December reached $37.2 billion, compared to $32.4 billion a year ago, with growth outpacing that of traditional brick-and-mortar stores, comScore reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Retail Federation expects total retail sales, excluding online business, to be up 3.8 percent for the period.<\/p>\n<p>The jump in online sales was fueled by the growing prevalence of free shipping, which comScore said happened on more than half of the transactions made during the season.<\/p>\n<p>Seven of the 10 business online shopping days during the two-month period took place in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. online sales for the 2011 holiday season rose 15 percent to hit an all-time high, according to data firm comScore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,205,201],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-comscore","tag-online-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}