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Black Friday shoppers spent $7.4 billion online, marking an e-commerce record for the shopping holiday.
The amount trailed only last year's $7.9 billion in spending during Cyber Monday.
The average order was up roughly 6% to $168 compared with a year earlier. That, too, set a new Black Friday record.
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