Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, Target, Apple and Best Buy led online shopping sales on Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season, says research company ComScore. Despite an increase in Black Friday online sales over 2008, analysts are concerned that recession-conscious holiday shoppers continue to be reluctant to shop. Cyber Monday, on Nov. 30, will in many ways be the ultimate test of the nation’s online shopping appetite this year.
– Online spending on Black Friday, the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving beginning
of the holiday shopping season, was up 11 percent over a year ago, according to
research company ComScore. Shoppers gravitated toward Amazon.com and Apple’s
online store, as well as the online sites for Wal-Mart, Ta…