Thanksgiving weekend shoppers spent less due to discounts
Cyber Monday is no longer a shopping event where people sneak in an item or two into their virtual shopping carts in between work, according to ADI.
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The trend also shows that customers are less willing to wait for Cyber Monday to make online deals.
Total digital spending on Cyber Monday 2015 reached $3.118 billion, a 21 percent annual gain over 2014. You stuffed yourself on Thanksgiving.
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For those who prefer shopping in stores, many businesses are offering Cyber Monday deals on site. “But Cyber Monday may not have as much gas left in the tank”.
“For the last few years, there’s been an extension of the Black Friday online shopping behavior”, said Tony Zito”, chief executive officer of Rakuten Marketing.
The survey found that of those that shopped in store, 51 percent shopped at department stores, 34 percent at discount stores, 32 percent at electronics stores, 28 percent at clothing or accessories stores, and 25 percent at grocery/supermarket stores.
“I don’t do it because I’m old fashioned, I like to touch and feel things”. “‘If so, when is it acceptable and is there anything that I should look out for?'”
It also reported that those shopping in different United States cities are “most (people who) lived in the area, but some came far, far away”. But that is not the case on Cyber Monday, says James.
“Customers want to shop anywhere, any time and any way, especially during the five super-popular days for online shopping running from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday”, Amazon Vice President Steve Shure said.
Mike Farris arrived at the Best Buy at Gulf Coast Town Center in the Fort Myers area at 5:30 a.m. on Black Friday.
Physical trips to stores on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday declined about 1%, reports ShopperTrak, a Chicago-based research company that measures foot traffic.
The survey found that 154 million people made purchases over the four days, up from 151 million a year ago.
Black Friday sales figures are in, and they are, to say the least, fantastic as far as online sales are concerned.
Everyone knows at least one person who can’t stand the sight of Christmas trees or holiday lights until after Thanksgiving, but more than half of consumers started shopping long before sitting down for their turkey dinner, according to a midseason survey by the National Retail Federation.
Adobe has declared that United States shoppers spent $1.2 billion USA in online sales via phones and tablets this Black Friday. Smartphone conversions were also less impressive than tablet conversions, despite smartphones being a more common mobile device than tablet computers are. Next year, would Black Friday sales figures once again break records in both sides of the Atlantic? They were discounted at Nordstrom, which is one of her favorite places to shop. “The people who shop online really shop online”. Then there are technical issues, such as slowing down the company’s Wi-Fi when too many mobile devices are accessing it at once. Younkin said that is probably a good strategy.
“We use to get up every morning on Black Friday, three in the morning, go everywhere”, she said.
“Anybody and everybody can be a victim of online scams” Mills said.