The biggest gain so far in the Christmas season sales is the extremely strong on-line sales performance. According to an articl ein today’s St Pete Times:

A survey by BIG Research estimated the average Black Friday shopper spent $360, 19 percent more than the opening day of the 2005 season. Excluding travel, online spending surved 26 percent to a one-day record of $608 million on this week’s Cyber Monday (so dubbed for its heavy online shpoping, according to Com-Score Networks.