Shoppers took to the web today for Cyber Monday

Considering the chaos of shopping in person has become more and more of a hassle in recent years, and that there is always a sale somewhere on Amazon that’s hard to resist, most of us do at least a little bit of shopping on this high retail holiday. Some of the best-selling items were high-priced games and gadgets such as Beats by Dre headphones, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gaming consoles, and Samsung 4k smart TVs.

Shoppers are expected to spend $3 billion today. Past year on Cyber Monday it was a record-breaking day for Amazon – 43 million items ordered.

Many of those purchases and even just your searches will be monitored by third parties. She said Target’s volume was already twice as high as its busiest day ever. Moreover, analysts at Cowen estimated that store traffic on Black Friday fell by more than 13%.

Of course, the main reason for people doing their shopping on the holiday weekend is for the discounts, and this year 40 percent of online sales came from so-called “door-busters”.

The strong online sales growth over the holiday weekend, did not appear to give investors confidence that retailers were in for an especially merry Christmas.

But that doesn’t mean that retailers all over the country are laughing all the way to the bank.

Walmart had different deals through the day, but planned to reprise them at 9 p.m. ET in an “Evening Edition”, to reach the folks who were actually working during the day.

Here’s one dedicated retailer: JCPenney’s which has over 50,000 online deals but their store focuses on apparel items moreso than anything else but they also have furniture and home goods as well.

The online rush Monday was enough to knock Target’s web site down for a short period Monday morning.

Too much shopping crashed Target’s website Monday. And they no longer wait for Monday to roll out Cyber Monday deals, either.

But with broadband more prevalent, online shopping is a year-round affair.

The National Retail Federation expects Cyber Monday shopping to be down slightly compared to previous year since more and more people are finding online deals on many other days during the holiday season. Adobe says it tracks 80 percent of all online transactions from the top 100 US retailers through its marketing cloud. All stores, online or brick and mortar alike have something for everyone. Slow service was also reported from payment processor PayPal Inc.