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The occasion was a reason to go to town for online shoppers as e-retailers saw close to 30,000 orders made

Were you one of those who succumbed to the dark side and the deals offered during Cyber Monday, Singles Day and 12.12? (Image Credit: Stefano Buttafoco/Shutterstock.com)

The e-commerce industry is thriving, having attracted nearly US$112 billion in investments globally in 2014 according to a Frost & Sullivan research paper. A PayPal study conducted by Nielsen in 2011 forecasted the Singapore online shopping market to reach S$4.4 billion (US$3.1 billion) this year.

The appetite for e-commerce is partly fed by retail holidays such as Cyber Monday, Singles Day, and more recent phenomenon 12.12, Zalora’s attempt to deliver Southeast Asia’s answer to the first two. Various e-commerce players brought these retail holidays to prominence, hoping to cash in on consumers’ appetites for a good deal or two.

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiering all over the world today, Shopback — a Singapore-based e-commerce startup that offers shoppers cashback rewards for their purchases — has released an infographic containing statistics from online shopping through the more than 500 e-retailers on its platform, comparing the performances and detailing the origins of these retail holidays.

“Judging me by my size, do you?” we imagine a certain green Jedi master saying.

Here is the stats warsy infographic:

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