It's something that consumers expect. You can easily compare prices and find the best prices online and make the holiday budget stretch a little bit further.

Luxury retailers spend a lot of money advertising in the off-line world, in print, because they are comfortable with that, they have more control over that situation. Those brands want to keep up a specific image, so they've been cautious about advertising online.

Create a nice, simple interface. It has to be a clear task that the kiosk is completing. You don't want the customer to find that the kiosk isn't doing what they expected it to do.

Consumers have spent the weekend with their family and they've been in the stores. They now have a holiday list going. And today is the first day that people are back at work in front of their computers.

The lines are really blurring between toys and gadgets.

It's a good time for online retailers to send some e-mail messaging to entice customers to both visit the site as well as potentially pull the trigger.

It's something that consumers expect.

They've been very aggressive so far. It's interesting, because for the past six years they've been trying to wean people off the idea that the Internet is all about low prices.

Electronics demand was driven by a lot of aggressive pricing.