Can you really get good deals on Black Friday?

Realising that fewer people are willing to join Daniels, chains have resorted to lottery-type offerings to lure shoppers to stores.

Julie Singewald’s Black Friday started at 4 a.m.at a Twin Cities outlet mall.

“It’s better than coming in the store”. Olivia Daniels arrived at a Best Buy store in Brooklyn at 5 am on Friday, three hours before it opened.

(Nick Agro/The Orange County Register via AP). Amazon revealed the list of Cyber Monday 2016 deals on Friday.

Holiday shoppers eager to snag big discounts turned to the internet in record fashion this week.

Adobe reported that Black Friday online sales were a record $3.34 billion with $1.2 billion spent via mobile devices.

The deepest average discounts for Black Friday came from leading online retailer Amazon.com Inc, with an average of 42 per cent off, compared with 33 per cent off at Walmart, 35 per cent at Target and 36 per cent at Best Buy, according to e-commerce analytics firm Clavis Insight.

Following the end of Black Friday sales, people are now preparing to go toward online shopping through Cyber Monday sale, which takes place on the first Monday after Thanks Giving.

At the start of the first holiday shopping season since the election of Donald Trump as president on November 8, US consumers loosened their purse strings and spent $1.15 billion online between midnight and 5 pm ET on Thursday, according to Adobe.

“At times it slows down, but earlier we had lines all the way to the back of the store”, Mcrae said.

“I’m really pleased with that – so we could spend the day [Thursday] with family”, Ward said of the decision. “I’m not gonna wait in line for it”. Now, while Black Friday bargains are still on, Amazon rolls out its hot Cyber Monday deals on November 28; which showcases more than 75,000 deals all throughout the week.

So what does this mean for Cyber Monday shoppers this year? “Whereas Cyber Monday you want to look more at soft goods like clothing and shoes and beauty products” said Benjamin Glaser with DealNews. “Where is she right now?” an Action News reporter asked Sanchez. “Never pay full price”, she said. The offer was too hard to pass up for the 34-year-old, who now isn’t working because she is on kidney dialysis. At Macy’s in NY on Thursday night, she said she was going shopping Friday but her enthusiasm has waned. She’s finished all of her holiday shopping online, but she and her mother continued their decades-old tradition of spending Black Friday together.

All told, shoppers spent $5.27 billion in online purchases on Thursday and Friday, up 17.7 percent from the two-day period past year, Adobe said.

Around the US, other stores opened their doors early Friday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the holiday season edges ever earlier. The site noted that Cyber Monday is being the biggest day for online shopping, but in tune with what U.S. News & World Report had figured, noted how savings on other days, like Thanksgiving and Black Friday, usually averaged around 23 percent and 24 percent worth of savings. “I only came for a Swiffer and toothpaste, and I’m leaving with a bit more than that”. Spending during the overall season-November and December-is still expected to grow 3.6% to $655.8 billion, the NRF estimates. That would be a gain of 3.6 percent from a year ago.