Online Retail Sales Set a Single-Day Record by Topping $900 Million

On December 15th online sales totaled $913 million. Each day of that week through Thursday, the last day to order with assurance of delivery by December 24th for many sites, topped $800 million, and total sales for the holiday season reached almost $25 billion, up 3.7% over 2008. I bought just about everything online this year (anything to avoid the malls), and everything arrived on time.