Internet purchase

Overstock.com, Inc. is an online closeout retailer offering discount brand name merchandise, including bed-and-bath goods, home decor, kitchenware, watches, jewelry, electronics and computers, sporting goods, apparel, and designer accessories, among other products. The Company also sells books, magazines, compact disks (CDs), digital versatile disks (DVDs), videocassettes and video games (BMMG).

[img_assist|nid=10851|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=100]The IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reports that during this September consumers in Britain spent £4.8 billion on internet purchases, a 14.8% increase over the same period last year.

Yet the figure is significantly lower than 73.2% increase on year-over-year basis recorded in September 2007.