The Tech Trader Daily site had a post today that nicely laid out the slide in e-commerce sales growth this year on a month-by-month basis. The data comes from Comscore and looks like this: April: +15% May +12% June: +11% July +8% August: +6% September: +5% Clearly, it's not a pretty picture; especially for an industry that is used to growing at double digits. What about the all-important Christmas shopping season? Will e-tailers be able to show enough growth to overcome the weakness in the months leading up to the holidays? Don't count on it. As the evidence increases that consumers in general are reluctant to spend, estimates for the holidays are coming down. Despite the fact that the percentage of shoppers using the Internet continues to increase, it appears we are hitting a speed bump. The following chart is from eMarketer and it shows that growth in holiday online sales will be the weakest in years. The folks at eMarketer are expecting a mere 10% growth