The company's consultants recently logged on to do their holiday shopping and study the state of the e-commerce market at the same time.

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Every year we do a study about Holiday consumer spending trends.

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He called The Sea, about a man who confronts his past in a town where he spent a childhood holiday, "a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected".

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