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Or at least that’s how it started a few years ago, when most Americans didn’t have high-speed Internet access at home and had to rely on their work computers for e-commerce.

Today, though, that’s not the case. And more and more retail analysts are starting to insist that Cyber Monday is nothing more than a marketing hoax — kind of like what some people say about global warming.

The concept was coined in 2005 by Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation, after the trade group’s members noticed a trend of people shopping online on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

“It is clearly overhyped and oversaturated with propaganda,” said Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst for market research firm NPD Group Inc. “Now, so many people have computers at home, the Monday thing is more about: Let me see what the deals are.”

Indeed, he points out that the busiest online shopping day coincides with the last day you can ship items and have them arrive on Christmas Day.

In some ways, that parallels Black Friday, which is no longer the busiest day for holiday sales that keeps bricks-and-mortar retailers in the black. Their busiest shopping day typically falls a day or two before Christmas.

But still, if you’re tech savvy and inclined to take part in Cyber Monday, you still can make out on some great deals today.

Even Cohen admits that it is likely to be a busy online shopping day, filled with promotions.

Toys“R”Us is offering $6,500 in weekend-long savings and doorbuster deals.

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Store hours will be extended at most locations through Saturday, with more discounted items to go on sale, such as select Wii Accessories for just $10. Hundreds of additional deals are set to begin at 12:01am Cyber Monday, including 70% off action figures.

Anyone too busy to visit their local Toys“R”Us can visit toysrus.com for exclusive savings on thousands of toys throughout the weekend, plus free shipping on orders of $49 or more. Shoppers looking for the holiday season’s hottest toy – the Zhu Zhu Pets Hamster – shouldn’t have much trouble finding it at Toys“R”Us. The toy-store chain said it will be adding thousands of Zhu Zhu Pets to store inventories throughout the day on Black Friday, with thousands more arriving through the month of December.