Cyber Monday sales hit whopping $1.25 billion

This is tremendous. According to comScore, Inc., Americans have spend $1.25 billion for shopping on Cyber Monday and the total amount of money spend from Thanksgiving day till Cyber Monday is a whopping $3.5 billion.

“Cyber Monday was yet another historic day for e-commerce, with online spending reaching a record $1.25 billion,” said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni. “It was just the second billion dollar spending day on record, following on the heels of Cyber Monday 2010. While last year saw Cyber Monday rank as the heaviest online spending day of the year for the first time ever, it will be interesting to watch the next couple of weeks to see if any future individual days in 2011 manage to leapfrog this year’s highest day-to-date.”

Here are few more charts that analyze the  sales that happened during this holiday season

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