Cyberspace: Jan. 12, 2001
Bricks-and-clicks e-tailers, those with real-world stores as well as Web sites, dominated the Nielsen/NetRatings list of top holiday-season performers on the Web, with “established offline brands” holding 11 of the top 15 spots on the Nielsen list; Walmart.com was sixth on the list, JCPenney.com was ninth, Bluelight.com was 12th, Sears.com was 14th and Target.com was 15th...Online holiday-season buying reached $10.7 billion in 2000, more than doubling the $5.2 billion spent on the Net in 1999, according to a study done for New York-based Goldman, Sachs & Co. That study also found online apparel sales for the first post-holiday week increasing to $121 million from $98 million the week before. And for the last pre-holiday shopping week, apparel sales on the Web were up nearly 130 percent over last year, according to data from the Nielsen/NetRatings service.
