‘U.S. Mobile Shopping Offsets Drop in Last-Minute Mall Traffic’ – ‘Mashable’

Jason Abbruzzese says, “Need to go to the mall? Baby, it’s cold outside.Shoppers unwilling to brave the elements for a final weekend of holiday shopping (although the East Coast didn’t exactly have a frigid weekend) took to their phones and tablets to order last-minute knickknacks.PayPal logged a 96% increase in the number of customers shopping on mobile devices from Dec. 21 to 22 compared to the last weekend before Christmas in 2012, according to data from the online payment company“.