U.S. Online Holiday Spending Approaches $27 Billion for First 37 Days of Shopping Season

For the holiday season-to-date $26.6 billion has been spent online, marking a 13-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week saw three individual days eclipse $1 billion in spending — Monday, Dec. 3 ($1.117 billion), Tuesday, Dec. 4 ($1.362 billion)  and Wednesday, Dec. 5 ($1.051 billion) — bringing the total number of billion dollar spending days for the season to seven. [Source: comScore]