Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Feeling a little hungover today, America? Well it could have been that shopping binge you went on yesterday.
Cyber Monday — as we're wont to call it — broke all time records, becoming the biggest online shopping day in history. Online sales were up 21 percent from 2012 according to IBM reports, and mobile traffic accounted for about 1 in 3 of those visits.
To help us put those numbers in some perspective, we're joined now by John Talbott, assistant director at Indiana University's Center for Education and Research in Retailing.