US Black Friday online sales total 3.34 bn dollars

The cold weather didn’t stop shoppers from hitting the malls, looking for Black Friday bargains.

The National Retail Federation, the industry group representing retailers, said last month that it expects sales in all of November and December – excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales – to hit $655.8 billion this year, including non-store sales of $105 billion.

Elida resident Cheri Zuber, who was with her daughter, Laura Hertenstein, of St. Marys, said they have been Black Friday shopping for 14 years and have only had one incident. “This year, there is more opportunity to grow the pie”, Mr. Lundgren said.

The lowest unemployment rate in eight years of 4.9 percent in October and a rise in hourly wage rates of 2.8 percent for the year, the biggest increase since 2009, is fuelling consumer confidence and spending power. The Mall of America in Minnesota, which opened 24 years ago, reported that Friday was the highest traffic day it can recall. RetailNext attributed the drop in sales at physical stores to fewer stores opening on Thanksgiving. Shoppers look for deals at the Irvine Spectrum Center in Irvine, Calif., on Black Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. Bond said they were not only were out shopping from 6 a.m. on Friday, but like others, the night before were out at stores Thanksgiving Day. Deal hunter who haven’t purchase a certain item because it runs out of stock or forgot to score a product as gift in pre-sale, Walmart Black Friday 2016 deals will be available at Walmart.com and in-app at 12:01 A.M. EST Thanksgiving morning. “I’m a visual” person, he said. “It’s better now; it used to be so packed”.

It still remains to be seen if Adobe’s estimates of mobile sales topping $1 billion out of over $3 billion in total online sales will change when Black Friday finally wraps tonight, of course. We’re not really into a lot of the shopping deals but we like to come here.

The sisters arrived at 9 a.m. on the hunt for home items and shoes.

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

The executives cited strong sales of smartwatches and other electronics such as videogame systems and TVs. “I just like shopping”. J.C. Penney sold out of 200,000 pairs of diamond stud earrings priced at $20 each.

Under the shadow of darkness, anxious shoppers wearing heavy coats, gloves and hats clenched coffee cups as they waited patiently for the stores to open. At Macy’s in NY on Thursday night, she said she was going shopping Friday but her enthusiasm has waned.

“Our customers were particularly excited about the new technologies we offered this year”. Some Swiss stores that have started offering American-style “Black Friday” discounts online have seen their sites freeze, slow down or crash under a surge in traffic. Door buster deals are long over, shoppers are mostly spent. Maybe it was the reason how Linna Dubbs became a Black Friday shopping veteran for eight years.

The boom started on Thanksgiving Day, when Amazon’s mobile sales topped Cyber Monday a year ago. Instead of leaving the office for long periods of time to do shopping errands, employees can take care of these tasks quickly online and then get back to their workloads and projects.Why has Cyber Monday replaced traditional shopping?”It comes down to convenience and saving time”, said Collins.

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“I don’t like the idea of it”, said Lauren Glynn.

-Sharon Terlep, Bradley Olson and Annie Gasparro contributed to this article.