It’s always an interesting time when people get in the festive mood, drinks flow, and wallets open. Even with talk of a recession, we’re seeing signs of a strong ecommerce christmas ahead of us.

eConsultancy recently published their own thoughts on the christmas season spending by predicting that nearly 50% of all customers planned to do the majority of their christmas spending the January sales and 39% will spend less this year. This seems to indicate to me that people will still be sending but looking to find some deals to save money at the same time.

As always, shopping online and comparing prices is the perfect way to do this and I think we’ll see a strong sales growth still for the online retailers this christmas.

Looking over at our friends across the pond, their CyberMonday data published on SFGate explained that more people had shopped compared with 2008 but they were all indeed spending a bit less.

So, just a sign of the times I guess, people looking for discounts, deals, voucher codes, cash back, and willing to spend less overall.