E-season.Angelenos are turning to the Internet more than any other shopping venue this holiday season, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the third annual "Online Shopping Cities" survey conducted for America Online See AOL. Inc. Survey respondents estimated that their online spending would be $591--63 percent of their total holiday budget and more than any other retail channel including catalogs and bricks-and-mortar stores, and a larger percentage than any other major market except Sacramento. "People are definitely finding it a lot easier to shop online," said Patrick Gates, senior vice president of e-commerce for AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. . "There are new search engines and new comparison tools that make it a lot easier to not only buy but do research "ahead of time." Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ranked second in the 30-city survey, behind San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , based on the average number of times per month consumers researched and purchased products and services online and the average amount spent online per month. |
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