In 2018, nearly $8 billion was spent on Cyber Monday, up almost twenty percent from the year before and a record high for the holiday. Not too shabby for a thirteen-year-old holiday.
Now that it has a name, it's a thing. Before that, it was just a trend. But in 2005 the world was given the term Cyber Monday and thus Cyber Monday became a thing the world would know.
White Wednesday crawled so Cyber Monday could walk. 1800Flowers.com tried to leverage the holiday shopping season by taking the Wednesday before Thanksgiving as a deal day. But, unfortunately, the holiday didn't catch as too many individuals were stuck in line at the airport before smartphones kept us entertained.
