The family trek to the Christmas tree farm has a competitor that's getting special buzz this season: the Internet.
Some retailers' websites, including Target, Costco and, on board this week, Sears and Kmart, are hawking freshly cut Christmas trees delivered door to door anywhere in the 48 contiguous states.
No, the Norman Rockwellesque vision of the family piling into the car to go cut down a live tree from the Christmas tree farm — or even picking one out at the local lot — isn't fading away.
Online sales of cut trees are still a fraction of the 27 million-plus Christmas trees expected to be purchased this year, says the National Christmas Tree Association. Some 33% of folks still trek to the choose-and-cut farms, the group says.
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