Online retail sales will rise to five billion pounds this month – a fourteen per cent increase on November.

That's according to a study from the Interactive Media in Retail Group.

They also predicted that Monday seventh of December will prove to be the busiest online shopping day of the year – with spending totalling as much as three hundred and fifty million pounds.

The IMRG found that ninety three per cent of shoppers plan to buy Christmas presents online this year.

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