'Mega-Minute'

Lots of press coverage today about online shoppers spending £767,500 in a single minute at 1.09pm yesterday.

Office workers taking advantage of their lunch hour to purchase gifts online are believed to be behind this record high, and the company reporting these figures, Retail Decisions, expected online sales for the full day to total around £370m, a 106% increase on the same Monday last year.

Games and accessories for the Nintendo Wii were apparently the most in demand items, followed by the iPod Shuffle and the iPod Nano.