Because off the cold weather many of you have been optioning to shop online!
According to electronic retail monitor IMRG, the UK public will have spent £57.8bn online by the time the clock hits 12 on December 31, a 16 per cent rise on 2009’s level and as much as triple the amount as just five years ago.
Online sales in November alone were above £6bn, surely largely thanks to the introduction of the Black Friday sales institution that’s so big in the US, and the Mega Monday that followed.
Overall, December 6 was the busiest online shopping day of the year, with UK consumers having spent an incredible £831,000 in a single minute – at 1.15pm if you must know – with the whole day’s takings having totalled £291 million.
Were you part of that lunchtime spending frenzy earlier this month? How much have you spent in total this Christmas? We’d love to hear from you in the comments below…
