date:Oct 15, 2013
ine spending this year because Christmas Day falls on a Wednesday and consumers can thus use retailers' online click collect services to pick up goods ordered online as late as Monday December 23.
The market research firm predicted online sales would jump 12 percent to 11.6 billion pounds. Overall it forecast 52 billion pounds would be spent on non-food items and 36.4 billion pounds spent on food.
Verdict said consumer confidence was also being lifted by events such as the awarding of compens