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Originally posted by directfiesta
Read the full article. Here is the first paragraph:
"European consumers are taking their love of shopping online, said credit card giant Visa, which says its cardholders did more than twice as much business through the internet at the end of 2002 than a year before. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2745893.stm
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this is from a survey released yesterday:
Online shopping has increased dramatically, according to the study. Nearly two-thirds of 2,900 Web surfers Ipsos-Reid surveyed said that they had at some point in time bought something online, up from 36 percent of those surveyed in 2000. The biggest markets for online shopping, according to the 12-country study, are in the United States and the United Kingdom, where 77 percent and 68 percent of Web users surveyed, respectively, have made purchases online.
That surge comes too late, however, for many now defunct Internet start-ups that tried to capitalize on people's urge to spend online.
"In spite of the dot-com meltdown, the Internet is still going strong and is advancing steadily," said Gus Schattenberg, vice president of global research at Ipsos-Reid. "There is no sign that we've reached any kind of a plateau, and the Internet is becoming a more important part of everyone's daily life."