With so much talk of consumers scaling back this year, retailers have to be somewhat pleased — or relieved — by holiday sales figures to date, at least based on the numbers coming in from the online world. After doing the math, ComScore, which tracks online spending, Tuesday reported that consumers spent nearly $16 billion during the first 36 days of the November-December 2009 holiday shopping season. That’s 3 percent above the amount spent during the corresponding days last year.

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