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Online shopping: Do you shop on the internet? - Point of View

Online shopping: Do you shop on the internet?

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Canadians ordered $15.1 billion worth of goods and services on the internet last year, up from $12.8 billion in 2007.

Statistics Canada attributed the increase to a rise in the number of online shoppers and a higher volume of orders.

The agency said 39 per cent of Canadians aged 16 and over used the internet to place more than 95 million orders in 2009 -- up from 32 per cent and 70 million orders in 2007, when the survey was last conducted.

The most common types of online orders continued to be travel services; entertainment products such as concert tickets; books and magazines; and clothing, jewelry and accessories.

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Do you shop online? If so, what sorts of products do you purchase on the internet?

 

(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' responses.)