The head of the National Retail Federation, Matthew Shay, says, “It’s no longer about one day but a season of digital deals”. “I plan on scoping out the deals”, said Diane Boral, 33, from Oxnard, California, who planned to shop online at Walmart, Target and other stores on Monday.
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Last week we asked where you were going to be doing your Black Friday shopping.
Specifically, Thanksgiving Day, a notably controversial day for retail, grossed an estimated $1.8 billion in sales, while Black Friday garnered an estimated $10.4 billion in sales.
Total web-based sales for Saturday and Sunday increased by 26 percent from a year earlier, IBM said in a report early Monday. “Knowing that retailers reserve some of the deepest discounts and deals on shipping for this day, consumers will be checking in throughout the day to see how the deals are shaping up”.
Jumping right in without wasting any more time, here are the best Cyber Monday 2015 deals. Cyber Monday spending may hit a record $3 billion this year, according to Adobe Systems Inc. By conventional wisdom, then, sales numbers for Black Friday were a crucial indicator for the success of the rest of the holiday season.
Research firm comScore expects online sales to rise 14 percent to $70.06 billion During the November and December shopping period, slowing slightly from last year’s 15 percent rise.
Previous year on Cyber Monday, customers worldwide ordered more than 43 million items, a record-breaking 500 items per second.
“We didn’t do any special deals this year because it has been taken over by the Black Friday weekend now”. The trick is that while Amazon has teased a variety of deals, it’s up to shoppers to stick around to find out when they will appear. The transition hasn’t always been smooth: Yesterday, Target’s website buckled briefly under the weight of Cyber Monday traffic.
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“Secondly, it is hamstrung by its own name – primarily making it an online only shopping day”. NRF’s Thanksgiving weekend survey, conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, showed that 103 million people shopped online over the weekend, reflecting a shift in shopping behavior. “It gets too insane for me”, Webb said. This site does the job of providing every customer with the concise and valuable information about many popular items with the big discount offered by some notable brands such as Samsung, Canon, Mattel & Fisher-Price Toys, Acer, and Microsoft and so on.
