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According to comScore, which measures digital commerce, consumers spent some $1.25 billion in 2011, up 22 percent from 2010. And this year should show similar growth.
But not everyone is happy with the online consumption. Some organizations and companies have asked shoppers to take a deep breath before pulling out their credit cards or, more pointedly, to boycott Cyber Monday altogether.
On Nov. 8, Jobs with Justice and American Rights at Work, a labor rights advocacy and campaign organization, launched an antiCyber Monday campaign. warehouse workers who fulfill online orders for retailers like WalMart and Amazon, north face jacket on sale Sarita Gupta, executive director of Jobs with Justice and American Rights at Work, said in a statement to ABC News.
On its website, the group cites workplace injustices including the pace of work, temperature, and employment, among other issues.
The group says it was inspired by recent strikes by WalMart employees and warehouse workers. In midSeptember, workers in Southern California went on a 15day strike that included a sixday, 50mile pilgrimage for safe jobs. Around the same time, hundreds of people marched in Dallas and San Diego, demanding better work conditions.
On north face jackets for cheap Wednesday, workers at a WalMartcontracted warehouse in Mira Loma, Calif., went on strike to demand better conditions at their facility, according to Warehouse Workers United, a unionbacked group that represents workers. The workers are employed by NFI, a logistics company, and Warestaff, a temporary labor agency not WalMart. But all of the merchandise that flows through the facility is headed for WalMart stores.
Chris Allen, 39, a striking worker, told ABC News, conditions inside the warehouse are really unsafe. We don have good equipment to perform our job. We need new dock ramps, new carts, new scan guns. People are still getting hurt out there. Kathleen Hessert, a spokeswoman for NFI, said that the allegations against its warehouses are false, and that the company maintains a safe workplace where people are treated with respect and dignity and it holds the staffing agencies to those same standards. Kory Lundberg, a WalMart spokesperson, said that the boycott just another exaggerated publicity campaign aimed at generating headlines to mislead our customers and associates. But WalMart is not the only target.
Two years ago, PETA staged a Cyber Monday protest against DKNY Facebook page. This year target is the fashion store Bebe, said PETA spokesperson Danielle Katz. She said PETA is encouraging consumers to complain to Bebe customer service line and tweet antiBebe messages.
Last year, Patagonia, the sportswear company, asked customers not to purchase the 60 percent recycled polyester R Jacket, one of its bestselling items, because making it 135 liters of water, enough to meet the daily needs (three glasses a day) of 45 people. On its website, the company noted that transporting the jacket to its Reno, Nev., warehouse generated nearly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, 24 times the weight of the finished product, and that the jacket left behind twothirds its weight in waste.
Patagonia wants to be in business for a good long time and leave a world inhabitable for our kids we want to do the opposite of every other business today, it wrote. ask you to buy less and to reflect before you spend a dime on this jacket or anything else.