The Percentage of Online Shoppers

question 26

Multiple Choice

The percentage of online shoppers

• A)didn't begin to show promise until 2007 when online security measures improved.
• B)stabilized in 2009 when Internet penetration reached 98 percent of all U.S.households.
• C)grew rapidly during 2003-2005 and then declined sharply when the "dot.com bubble" burst in 2006.
• D)has grown year after year and is expected to continue to increase over the next few years.
• E)grew slowly for the first three years,spiked dramatically in 2008-2009,but then slowed just as dramatically due to a downturn in the economy and the implementation of a new online state sales tax collection law passed by Congress.

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