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<p>860m parcels will be shipped to the UK's 26m internet shoppers; 33 each on average.</p>
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<p>The average UK online shopper will spend £1,600. </p>
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<p>38% of online shopping takes place outside normal shop hours, either before 9am or after 6pm, peaking between 7pm and 9pm.</p>
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<p>UK e-commerce grew 3,500% between April 2000 and December 2006. </p>
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<p>Internet shoppers will spend £78bn a year online by 2010 – doubling online's share of retail sales to 20%.</p>
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<p>The £42bn figure for UK online sales is equivalent to the annual turnover of the nation's biggest retailer Tesco. </p>
<p>Tesco recently announced that its <a href="http://www.tescocorporate.com/page.aspx?pointerid=F17D53B621014A528D15724B51BEDA60">online sales during the year reached £1.226bn</a>, with profits of £83.4m. The supermarket giant's sales rose by 29.2% and profits were up by 48.5% on last year. </p>
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<a href="http://www.tesco.com/">Tesco.com</a> now has over 850,000 regular online grocery customers ordering 250,000 orders a week.</p>
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<strong>The IMRG's annual statement says etail is growing faster than ever before, and predicts online sales in the UK will reach £78bn a year by 2010.</strong>
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