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What Type of Online Shopping Rose 460% Over Last Year?

TheFind, a comparison shopping engine, released some statistics on mobile shopping sessions for this past Thanksgiving weekend. TheFind offers a mobile site as well as iPhone and Android apps.

The highlights include:

  • 25% of its traffic came from mobile devices. That’s up 10 percentage points from 15% of all shopping visits for Thanksgiving weekend in 2009;
  • Total number of mobile shopping sessions increased 460% from Thanksgiving weekend last year;
  • Nearly half used the bar code scanner to scan a bar code of an item and search for prices across the web;
  • The items most frequently scanned in stores include electronics and video games; and
  • 300% more consumers use its iPhone app than its Android app.

Does your business offer your customers mobile apps and a mobile site?

Full story at Internet Retailer »