(WMT) Sleepers in the E-Commerce Boom

by Justin Dove, Investment U Research Tuesday, June 28, 2011 E-commerce is one of the few areas of constant growth in the United States these days. It’s the reason Wal-Mart (Nasdaq: WMT) wants to unseat Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) as the leader in online retail sales. Check out what the first-quarter 2011 comScore report had to say about online retail sales: Online retail sales totaled $38 billion in the first quarter of 2011. This marks a 12 percent rise over the first quarter of 2010. It is the sixth straight quarter with positive growth over the previous year and the second consecutive quarter with double-digit growth over the previous year. The number of online buyers increased by seven percent. The transactions per buyer increased by nine percent. The dollars per transaction