Best And Worst Online Deals For The Week Of Cyber Monday

This Cyber Monday could be the largest online sales day ever, according to early numbers from Adobe Systems Inc. Online shopping was likely driven by convenience, growing consumer comfort levels and a desire to avoid overflowing stores during the busiest shopping weekend of the year, says Traci Gregorski, vice president of marketing for MarketTrack, a research firm that helps retailers with pricing and advertising strategies.

Black Friday has given way to Cyber Monday.

Although Black Friday has been a fixture of Thanksgiving weekend much longer than Cyber Monday has been, more consumers shopped online over the weekend than in stores, according to USA Today.

“Shoppers have seen promotions roll out for the past several weeks, but if the price is right on Cyber Monday, they’ll definitely show up ready to spend”, Shay said. Amazon started “Lightning Deals” on Saturday and Wal-Mart beginning all of its Cyber offers on 8 p.m. on Sunday.

According to Adobe, 53 per cent of online retail traffic came from mobile devices, as did 32 per cent of sales.

You might have noticed that we mentioned one of the notebooks offered for sale on Cyber Monday has been around for 9 months.

A notebook with last year’s technology might not be such a great deal after all.

Online shoppers this holiday season were expected to do some significant buying on the Monday after Thanksgiving, which is generally one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

But some companies are also struggling to keep up with delivery demands, with one expert warning Cyber Monday orders will pile pressure on operators already battling to cope with the weekend’s orders. During the same period on Black Friday, UK consumers clocked up 1,839,832 online transactions.

“That extra 5 percent convinced me to buy a few more”, she said. A lot of bosses looking the other way today, as millions log-on and look for the best deals online.

He noted that online shoppers are also more in tune with stacking discounts and will abandon their shopping carts in they do not get free or discounted shipping.

“I compared the items to prices at Macy’s and Toys R Us, and Kohl’s had a lower total price”, she said.

IBM meanwhile predicted Cyber Monday online sales would grow by more than 18 percent from a year ago, led by big-ticket items such as Samsung, Sony and LG televisions as well as Apple Watch and Beats headphones.