That was in line with a recent survey by the Deloitte consulting firm that found that among holiday weekend shoppers, 44 percent planned to shop in-store on Black Friday – a decline from 63 percent in 2012.
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Cyber Monday traditionally takes the hunt for discounts away from high street stores and into cyberspace. Some stood in line for hours waiting for the doors to open at 5 a.m. Friday.
Gentry’s change in his shopping approach, believing there would be more shoppers online. This year, the mall was open from 6 p.m.to midnight on Thanksgiving and re-opened at 6 a.m. on Black Friday.
Walmart’s Cyber Monday events kick off on Sunday night, with the deals available beginning at 8 p.m. ET.
“We expect a big crowd”, Target store manager Erin Lockhart said earlier in the week. Toys R’ Us offered discounts on some of the hottest toys of the season. But many people in America still lined up, and even camped outside stores, all to guarantee themselves the best chances at scoring great deals on Black Friday.
Over the course of the week, Amazon has revealed over 7,000 Deals of the Day from sat navs, to electric toothbrushes and Minion toys – but they’ve promised the best deals on Black Friday itself. She said they’ve had to adapt their strategy to the demand of the times.
With so many shoppers getting their fill of deals on Thanksgiving, Black Friday may be slipping into Grey Thursday.
Shopping online makes comparing prices easy; just browse different retailers online to see how the deals stack up on specific items.
She and her husband, Mike, had stopped at two other stores.
But while the shopping extravaganza appeared to get off to what O’Shea called a “reasonable” start, it remains to be seen if an uptick in sales over the four-day Black Friday shopping period will be enough to boost retailers out of their lull.
The roads to get to Black Friday shopping will be toughest to the South and West, which is where FOX31 Denver’s Greg Nieto and Amanda Zitzman were this morning. “So, it’s not just a single shopper out there”, Campbell said.
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“We’ve shifted the shopping patterns where now the doors open and the shoppers flock in on Thanksgiving, and we saw a resurgence of that when we opened the doors again on Black Friday”, Bisenius said.
