Record-setting shopping expected NBC Los Angeles [Video]

Consumers in the United States are scouring the internet for online deals as they look to take advantage of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon with Cyber Monday.

Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people’s regular routines and the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation — has become the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to the deals and the hype the industry has created to fuel it.

Adobe Analytics, which tracks online shopping, expects consumers to spend a record $13.2 billion on Monday, 6.1% more than last year. That would make it the season’s — and the year’s — biggest — shopping day for e-commerce. In a survey from financial company Deloitte, consumers said they expect to spend a record $650 during Black Friday-Cyber Monday shopping events, up 15% from last year.

For several major retailers, a Cyber Monday sale is a days-long event that began over …