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"Apparently, there's no need to wait until Cyber Monday to snag great holiday shopping deals online. \nFor the first time ever, Black Friday online sales topped $1 billion, proving that lining up outside brick and mortar retailers isn't the only way to jumpstart your holiday shopping.\nComScore announced Sunday that online sales rose 22% from 2011, when cyber purchases totalled $816 million. \nOnline shopping is expected to rise to 17% of total shopping this holiday season, equivalent to $43.4 billion, comScore says. in 2011, online retail rose 15% on the year before.\nIn contrast, ShopperTrak, which monitors foot traffic into physical retail stores, estimates in-store Black Friday sales declined 1.8% since the same day in 2011. This year's brick and mortar purchases are estimated at $11.2 billion.\nOnline retail still consists of less than 10% of consumer spending in the U.S., though it's growing much faster than brick and mortar shopping.\nWhere do you do most of your shopping, online or in stores? Let us know if your surprised by comScore's findings.\nSearching for the perfect gift? Check out our helpful tips and tricks for holiday shopping:\n\nShopping Scams Await Online Bargain Hunters\n\t\nBuild Your Own Holiday Toys With littleBits\n61% of Online Shoppers Would Trade Privacy for Personalization [INFOGRAPHIC]\nTop Tech Toys for the Connected Generation [VIDEO]\n\t\n\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, iPandastudio"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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