Shoppers 'spend over £2.7bn on Boxing Day'
Shoppers spent over £2.7 billion in stores and online ion Boxing Day, according to the Daily Telegraph.
In numbers: Retail websites set for huge month
Thousands of shoppers are set to hit the high street today but retail websites have already seen a huge surge in online shopping.
- It was expected that some 117 million visits to retail websites were made in the UK on Christmas Day.
- The figure will increase today with 118 million expecting to visit the sites.
- Between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day some 45 million hours would have been spent shopping online.
- By the end of December, it is estimated there will have been three billion visits to retail websites in the UK, which will be the first time that figure has been reached in a single month.
Figures from global information services group Experian.
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