Stupid Poll Says Philadelphians Love Online Shopping

Hey, did you go shopping online on Monday? No? But it was “Cyber Monday,” the first day of the online holiday shopping season! Okay, who cares it’s not the biggest day for online sales and it was actually made up by online retailers and reported on by an all-too-lazy media as truth, hello, it was Cyber Monday! The holiest day of the online shopping year!

Okay, so maybe (i.e. definitely) Cyber Monday isn’t real. (The graphic on this post, by the way, is from a Google Image Search for “Cyber Monday.”) But that hasn’t stopped Philadelphians from shopping online, as we apparently lead the country in online shoppers.

Apparently, Philadelphians are too ugly to shop in actual stores, so 79 percent of Philadelphians surveyed by notoriously inaccurate pollster Zogby will buy at least some Christmas presents online. And forty percent have used a cell phone to “comparison shop.” OMG!

Wait, do 40 percent of Philadelphians even have cell phones that would allow them to shop online?

Philadelphia Leads the Nation in Online Shoppers [KYW 1060]

Leftovers: Philly, By Way Of Bristol

• The New York Times did a little travel piece on Philadelphia in yesterday’s issue; here’s the article and the corresponding video. Your job as a Philadelphian is to read these articles and get unnecessarily angry at something the Times wrote or filmed. Best part of the video: When Philly’s status as an “art city” is spoken about, the Dirty Frank’s mural is shown. [NYT]

• Ahh, yes, it’s Cyber Monday, the day when Internet businesses tell us that today is the day when everyone shops online and the news media follows suit with a billion stories about how everyone is shopping! Online! Whee! [KYW 1060]

• Wilkes-Barre: Not in the Poconos. The town’s residents sure to love legalized gambling, though! [Daily News]

• The longtime mayor of Bath, Pennsylvania, has been arrested for stealing $9k from the Roman Catholic church she was secretary of. To toss her out of office would be like throwing the baby out.. oh, nevermind. [AP/6 ABC]

• The Willow Grove Mall was evacuated Saturday after a fire started in a women’s clothing store on the third floor. No one was hurt, but 10 pairs of Steve Maddens were not so lucky. [Doylestown Intelligencer]

• Cherry Hill’s township council has canceled a vote concerning some sort of new porn shop ordinance. Gasp! What exciting turn will this story take next? [Camden Courier-Post]

• Update, 5:50 p.m.: The Phillies have signed free agent pitcher Adam Eaton to a three-year deal worth around eight mil a year, or one million per earned run he’ll give up per nine innings this season with the Phils’ luck. [ESPN.com]