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Visa releases holiday online spend data, infographic

December 3, 2013

Visa has today released its e-commerce sales data from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. According to the company, e-commerce sales from all U.S. devices (including smartphones, tablets and PCs) rose to $7.8 billion, a 30 percent increase over the same 5-day period last year.

Other data the company released: 

• Cyber Monday was once again king of the hill with $2.6B in spending on U.S. Visa cards, up 28 percent over 2012;
• e-commerce sales on Thanksgiving were just shy of $1B, a 30 percent jump over last year; and
• e-commerce spend on Visa cards alone exceeded $1B on 4 of 5 shopping days (and has already exceeded $1B on more than 200 days in 2013).