Online Retailers Record 8th Straight Week of Lower Traffic

[mandy]

Reflecting consumer pessimism toward the current economic climate, online retailers experienced a decline in visits for the eighth straight week, according to a report released Tuesday.

Traffic to a custom collection of 500 retail Web sites monitored by analyst Hitwise declined 3 percent for the week ending October 25 compared with the same week a year ago.

The declines mirror the overall decline in consumer spending the past couple of months. Visits to Hitwise's Retail 500 Index were up 14 percent from June through August compared with the same period in 2007, but then declined 4 percent in September...

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[amy]

Our September traffic was up M/M from August and Y/Y from September 2007.  October traffic is flat with September but significantly higher than last October.