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Shortly after Zynga's publication that they are testing the Bitcoin payments within their online games, news arrived that one more American online store has done the same.

A marketing research company, Reputation Leaders conducted a survey for PayPal on customers' habits on the Internet during holiday shopping. Online survey was conducted in November and included 4,524 respondents from nine countries (Australia, France, Italy, Canada, Germany, Russia, Singapore, the UK and the US), ranging from 16 up to 64 year of life.

“ Now you listen to me, young lady! Even if we're *horribly mangled*, there'll be no sad faces on Christmas.”The Grinch, “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,” Universal Pictures, 2000
We’ve wrapped up the last of our summer vacations, the kids are back at school and it’s time for your first sighting of a pre-holiday ad or online/in-store Christmas decoration.  Don’t worry, retailers have been thinking about it for you. After last year’s white-knuckle Christmas, retailers and manufacturers have been working feverishly to ensure you forget about how you scoured the web and stores looking for bargains. Actually, they learned a lot from all of their efforts to convince you they had the stuff you wanted to buy, give, share. So, they’re pulling out all of the stops and testing a bunch of new technologies to not just finish the season in a solid manner but even produce a little sales lift this year. Retailers have set some aggressive goals for the season; and this year, they’re focused on the bottom-line. It all boils down to their ability to drive sales through strategically timed promotions and totally integrated marketing – web, social media, mobile device, in-store.