12.27.2004 10:55

Amazon: consumers ordered 32 items per second, single day sales record


Associated Press via yahoo reports
Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said sales of consumer electronics surpassed book sales for the first time and was its largest sales category over the Thanksgiving weekend, launching the online retailer's busiest holiday selling season in 10 years.

The company also said it set a single-day sales record during the period with more than 2.8 million units, or 32 items per second, ordered across the globe.
I wonder how much, as a proportion of Christmas sales, online purchases are. Just as Old Media is being replaced, is Old Retail being replaced? Oddly, no mention in that article or this one which day it was.

I can do my Christmas shopping now.