Top Items Sold on the Internet

I got my copy of Internet Retailer magazine’s 2005 Top 500 Guide http://www.internetretailer.com/top500/index.asp , and it contains a lot of very interesting information

In 2005, the leading items over the Internet in terms of sales are:

• Mass merchant/department store = $18.267 billion in sales
• Computers/electronics = $17.667 B
• Office supplies = $10.323 B
• Apparel/accessories = $7.061 B
• Books/CDs/DVDs = $2.500 B
• Housewares/home furnishings = $2.416 B
• Specialty/non apparel = $2.325 B
• Food/drug = $1.872 B
• Health/beauty = $1.748 B
• Flowers/gifts = $1.203 B
• Sporting goods = $1.336 B
• Hardware/home improvement = $0.851B
• Toys/hobbies = $0.740 B
• Jewelry = $0.615 B