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Turkey Day Smoke Clears, Winners Emerge

After all is clicked and bought, Thanksgiving weekend numbers are in with clear retail sector winners. While Best Buy, eBay, Wal-Mart, and Amazon (the four horsemen?) are directing all the Web traffic, it is still unclear which day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, pulls in the most shoppers.

Cyber Monday An Unexpected Success

When Shop.org coined the phrase "Cyber Monday," it was more of a whisper among themselves than a true coining. That whisper floated all the way to a teleprompter on the Today Show in November 2005, and the rest is, as they say, history. Cyber Monday is now a firmly established tradition, just one year after it's naming.