Record traffic expected for 'Cyber Monday' - washingtonpost.com

The post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon continued Monday with nearly 100 million shoppers expected to troll online retailers for bargains on what has become known as Cyber Monday, helping to make the sector one of retailing's few bright spots.

About 700 e-commerce sites offered bargains on Monday in partnership with Shop.org, a trade group that coined the term several years ago after noticing a spike in online sales as Americans returned to the office -- and its high-speed Internet connections -- after the Black Friday weekend. The group said it anticipated 96.5 million shoppers to log on Monday, which would be a record...