the united states to break down the numbers for us let's cross one to financial correspondent sabrina kessler on wall street hi sabrina good to see you what can you tell me about u.s. retail sales during the festive period. get this season was absolutely record breaking at least that's what a credit card company master card is telling us not in terms of say is that the apartment stores they were only 2 percent compared to last year but e-commerce sales this holiday season rose nearly 20 percent and that's why this year is the 1st time ever that people spend so much money online the biggest the weather of course amazon which just announced that they have the best holiday season ever they didn't report any specific numbers but the message was clear i think so amazon stocks rose more than 40 percent today overall a massive desire to buy this season but after christmas comes the return season and that will also hit another all time high since holiday returns are projected to be a record 95000000000 dollars this year with nearly half of that coming from. so some huge numbers there sabrina is relie