'Cyber Monday', 'Mega Monday', call it what you will – this Monday was anticipated to have been one of the busiest ever days for online shopping, as consumers aim to stock up for Christmas.

The Monday closest to December has been the busiest for online shopping in the last two years, and time around retailers were expecting it to be bigger than ever.

Visa Europe reported that they were anticipating over one thousand six hundred transactions per minute this Mega Monday. This amounts to spending of more than one hundred and seventy five million pounds.

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