The 9 BEST Cyber Monday deals

ChannelAdvisor also estimates that Cyber Monday is on track to be the largest online dollar day for the year.

More sales on Cyber Monday, Talbott added, is just a natural progression.

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

“A lot of people wait to see if deals are better on Cyber Monday”, said Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru.

However, Cyber Monday seems to be stretching into weeks worth of bargains.

While retailers continue counting their receipts from what appears to have been a robust Black Friday weekend, the best may be yet to come, at least online. “We believe this holiday could be the necessary catalyst for this new product category to begin with take off, creating another “branch” on the Apple tree”.

It’s a 36% year-on-year boost on 2014’s takings, and demonstrates that the US-bred shopping date is set to be a key fixture in the United Kingdom retail calendar.

Now that shoppers are online all the time anyway, the 10-year-old shopping holiday known as Cyber Monday has lost some of its lustre.

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

SEATTLE _ The pace of online spending slowed on Cyber Monday after consumers started their Internet shopping earlier over the weekend, turning to their smartphones to pick up deals, according to IBM.

Amazon itself said sales of its electronic gadgets more than tripled over the entire Thanksgiving weekend, with the Fire tablet its top-selling product. “And from our data, we saw greater retail sales generated prior to the Black Friday weekend, which is a result of retailers successfully elongating the holiday season”.

It’s officially Cyber Monday and if you weren’t a part of the crowd that hit the mall on Friday you may be cozying up to your computer today to catch those deals. That’s a jump of 14 percent compared to the same period a year ago, and websites are having trouble keeping up with the increased traffic.

Despite the hefty purchase volumes, experts say that the Monday after Thanksgiving – traditionally a fixed day where online retailers offered deep discounts on their wares – may be losing its hold over consumers.