Italy's e-commerce boom leaves hangover for some

Italy’s e-commerce sector has celebrated a bumper Christmas, but some people are left nursing a hangover now that the party is over.Online sales in Italy over the holiday season were the best ever and beat expectations, Roberto Liscia, the president of Netcomm, a consortium of online vendors, told Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper Wednesday.“We had estimated e-commerce purchases worth 2.5 billion euros (US $2.95 billion). Instead we reached 3 billion euros, with an annual increase of 28 percent,�