Online shopping on Black Friday up almost 22%

What about online versus in store?

“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.

At many malls, more consumers turned up as the day progressed. Singewald said she was merely the vehicle – “and sometimes the credit card” – as her daughters worked on their shopping lists.

“It’s better than coming in the store”.

As a result, some were juicing their Cyber Monday sales with some good deals.

And regardless of convenience or shopping tradition, bargain hunting is still at the forefront of most shoppers’ minds during the holiday season.

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“For many millennials, every Thanksgiving weekend they can remember has involved hopping online to find the best deals”.

Based on a Market Track study of holiday circulars, Walmart is offering an average discount of 39 percent, compared with 35 percent previous year. The most-watched deal so far this holiday season is a Mermaid Tail Blanket.

“Cyber Monday – it’s going to be really good”, Marsh said.

Other firms also highlighted the mobile data in their Black Friday recaps. The estimate marks a 33 percent increase over last year’s mobile sales total for the day.

The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, expects holiday sales to rise 3.6 percent to $655.8 billion for November and December, better than the 3 percent growth seen for those months previous year. But it includes online spending and other non-store sales such as catalog spending. That compares to nearly double at 3.7 percent on tablets and a higher four percent on desktops. Most of those online sales were attributed to mobile shopping, which accounted for over 60 percent of Target’s online sales.

Moving to Target, that retailer noted that traffic and sales through its website saw record numbers, exceeding those from Cyber Monday a year ago. Walmart will be doing unboxing and interactive live demos of the hottest selling products that will be offered in Walmart Cyber Monday 2016 online deals.

Walmart’s Black Friday 2016 sales has not yet concluded, and the Arkansas-headquartered retailer already announced that will be producing a live stream online show for Cyber Monday 2016.

J.C. Penney, a laggard in the online arena, is quickly catching up under CEO Marvin Ellison.

“Nobody was busting down the doors at 6 a.m.”, said Tracy Watkins, a Bed, Bath and Beyond store manager at the Chicago Ridge Mall, as temperatures outside lurked below freezing.

“This trend continued into Black Friday, as the sales event is now tracking to bring in $1.13 billion in revenue, which is up 25 per cent year-over-year”, the report noted. Beauty products, an often overlooked category when it comes to online shopping also has better deals on Cyber Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump also stepped into the online sales excitement.

Forget Thanksgiving. For a lot of Americans, Black Friday is the week’s biggest holiday and the most-awaited shopping day of the year.

“If you want to get a little more specific, Thanksgiving and Black Friday is when you want to focus on those big ticket black Friday items like electronics, TVs, Computers and home appliances”.