Another great reason why internet shopping may be doing very well: "Officials concerned about holiday terror threat." Apparetnly "soft" targets like shopping malls have been in the chatter being heard by U.S. Intelligence (Oxymoron?). Here is a scary quote from that story: "As recently as two weeks ago, the intelligence community was telling the Homeland Security Department that this felt a lot like the summer of 2001," said Roger Cressey, a former counterterrorism official with the National Security Council.