Online Shopping

The holiday shopping season begins with Thanksgiving and Black Friday retail sales. Consumers and business owners can expect some familiar concerns, as we well as some new ones.

With holiday shopping gearing up, the Small Business Administration says online sales are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year. But according to the FBI, in 2021, cybercrimes against small businesses reached a record high of $2.4 billion.

While some local South Dakota businesses have struggled during the pandemic, others have seen success by expanding e-commerce, online messaging, and social media services.

The numbers are still coming in but South Dakota retailers expect shopping sales to be higher than 2020.

It’s the start of this year’s legislative session, and leaders are already split over how to budget new money coming to South Dakota. Online retailer…

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