PINcept.com: 58% of Onlinie Retailers Saw Q1 Sales Increase

58% of Onlinie Retailers Saw Q1 Sales Increase

According to Practical eCommerce:

"Some retailers saw better than expected onlinesales in the first three months of 2009, according to the results of anew survey.

But it was not clear whether some online purchases werecoming at the cost of brick-and-mortar sales.

Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation, and Forrester Researchconducted a "flash" survey of some 80 retailers in April.

Of thoseretailers, 44 percent had seen double digit increases in online sales,and an additional 14 percent of respondents had sales grow up to 10percent for the first three months of 2009."