it would be interesting to know what the distribution/skew of volume versus merchants ... and what the relation of the 2000 "stores" to online merchant sites.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-978712.html?tag=fd_top Online shopping passes $11 billion By Margaret Kane Staff Writer, CNET News.com December 23, 2002, 10:56 AM PT Shoppers continued to hit the Net as the holiday shopping season headed into the final lap, spending $11.35 billion between Nov. 1 and last week. That number--an increase of about 40 percent from the same period last year-- comes from shopping comparison site BizRate, which surveys consumers as they finish making purchases. BizRate has about 2,000 stores in its database. -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
