Shoppers out looking for deals on Black Friday

Other popular purchases include an 6 litre Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 electric pressure cooker, for which the current Amazon.co.uk price is £99.99 but the Black Friday sales price is £69.99, and the Roberts Radio RD60 Revival DAB/FM RDS digital radio, reduced from £180 to £144.

And some, couldn’t be happier.

Gov. Charlie Baker has declared the day Green Friday, and his administration is encouraging people across the state to buy their Christmas trees, holiday plants and wreaths at local farms.

Retailers saw fit to stoke the Black Friday fires in advance by promoting door busters three days earlier than a year ago, and offered more dramatic discounts, said Traci Gregorski, senior vice president of marketing at Market Track. With online shopping on the rise, more shoppers are gravitating toward Cyber Monday than ever before.

The NRF, the nation’s largest retail group, expects holiday sales to rise 3.6 percent for November and December, better than the 3 percent growth seen for those months previous year.

That surge in online sales translates into fewer holiday shoppers braving the malls.

Sales have been expected to increase this holiday season by 3.6 percent.

Online spending by USA bargain- hunters climbed to above US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) by Thanksgiving evening on Thursday, according to Adobe Digital Index, surging nearly 14 per cent from a year ago and reflecting a broader trend away from brick-and-mortar shopping. “It’s like normal”, said Dolorez Godinez, while looking at some electric accessories in Tulare’s Target.

“I think everyone should stay closed on Thanksgiving”, she said. That sale is followed by week-long deals. They had been on a shopping spree since 11 p.m. Thursday, hitting Wal-Mart, Target and other chains.

To organize her shopping, Dubbs had her family go through fliers and circle items they wanted with details like clothing sizes.

Who helped reach the high number this year– millennials.

Gobble down the turkey, then head to the stores.

“There will be continuing dominance in online sales today as consumers increasingly realize they will get the same deals in-store and online”, said Brent Schoenbaum, a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP. The company recently invested in revamping its web and mobile sites in advance of the holiday season.

Black Friday is here, and the holiday shoppers are already out in force.

“I do most everything online now”, Tate said. “Just came to participate in all the excitement”.

Lundgren said traffic remained strong at Macy’s in Herald Square by late Friday morning, and there were similar reports from locations across the U.S.

For countless days, it seemed politics and the election were the only thing filling up the television screen this month.

Supporting that optimism is low unemployment, fairly cheap gasoline prices and stock market records that have left many consumers feeling flush with cash. Her mall cart was topped with bags from Aldo, The Disney Store, Tommy Hilfiger and Bath and Body Works.

Store manager Wendy Calderon-Jones said they had 1,500 coupons to pass out to customers.

Beaverton resident Maitri Desai was surprised by the big crowds. They bought TVs, Toshiba TVs, 4K. People just turn to their phone, tablets and computers to get the job done. Singewald is doing more of her own shopping online.

“I looked at some online deals on J.C. Penney which were good”.

The first Cyber Monday deals began in November 2005 and rapidly became worldwide via online retailers across the globe. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, stores reduce the prices of their online merchandise in hopes of encouraging the online shopper.

“You really can not have the product of a political-oriented person in your store because 48% of the people aren’t going to like that, right?” he said on CNN.

“We’ve got it down to a routine”, Powell said.