Shoppers log online for Cyber Monday specials
Posted: 11.29.2010 at 9:02 AM
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(AP) -- 'Tis the season for shopping and consumers and retailers alike are gearing up for another busy week ahead.

Cyber Monday is big business for a lot of online retailers and sales over the Thanksgiving holiday season have already topped more than one billion dollars.

The sales promotions on the Monday after Thanksgiving got their name from a retail trade group, which promoted the idea that people, upon returning to work, would log onto their computers there and shop.

Now it's about the deals online in the way that Black Friday means a shopping frenzy in stores. In fact, as stores promote Black Friday discounts online, it's getting harder to tell the difference between the two as sellers try to grab dollars any way and at any time they can.

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