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Cyber Monday likely to be busiest online sales
day
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November 26, 2012 -- Bye-bye Black Friday. So
long Small Business Saturday. Now, it's Cyber
Monday's turn. Cyber Monday, coined in 2005 by a
shopping trade group that noticed online sales
spiked on the Monday following Thanksgiving, is
the next in a series of days that stores are
counting on to jumpstart the holiday shopping
season. It's estimated that this year's Cyber
Monday will be the biggest online shopping day of
the year for the third year in a row According
to research firm comScore, Americans are expected
to spend 1.5 billion, up 20 percent from last
year on Cyber Monday, as retailers have ramped up
their deals to get shoppers to click on their
websites.
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  openings on Thanksgiving day to scoop up
  "doorbuster" deals. A record 247 million shoppers
  visited stores and websites in the
  post-Thanksgiving Black Friday weekend this year,
  up 9 from 226 million last year,
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