Mobile shopping hits record numbers over Thanksgiving and Black Friday

The push to start Cyber Monday deals earlier follows what’s been happening with Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, which used to officially kick off the holiday shopping season in stores.

This Thanksgiving shopping day is about finding great deals for herself and her daughter, she said, not worrying about Christmas shopping. Julie Singewald’s Black Friday started at 4 a.m.at a Twin Cities outlet mall. Macy’s said Thursday that its Herald Square flagship welcomed 16,000 shoppers when it opened at 5 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, 1,000 more than a year ago.

At the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, “Bella’s Black Friday Professionals”, a group of women from the same family that WBZ-TV profiled a year ago, were back. “It was just yesterday at 3 p.m. that we opened up”.

However, some store managers say they expected this because their online sales are growing. “If it’s going to be busy at the mall and you can get it next week, why bother?” she said.

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“Normally, we stay comfy at home”, she said.

What’s interesting about Amazon’s Cyber Week Deals is that with Amazon Prime Now, users can actually get their orders delivered to them within an hour. “That’s how we try to keep track of each other”.

According to May, other than the large crowds, her shopping experiences have been fairly tame. “That’s probably the craziest thing I’ve ever done, though”.

“TVs, TVs. That’s all I came for”, Lorri Walton said. For many, the sport of Black Friday shopping is also a family tradition. Each year, she goes in with a plan.

Most of the mall closed on Thanksgiving, Golden said, “and the response from shoppers has been positive” about that decision.

Televisions with 4K resolution and other gadgets were at deep discounts on Black Friday eve.

Ebay also reported a surge in mobile shopping, noting that the share of gross merchandise bought on mobile grew to 38 percent versus the desktop this Thanksgiving, up from 35 percent previous year.

Across the industry, retailers released advertisements of their biggest deals three days sooner this year on average than last, according to Market Track LLC, which analyzed emails, social media and retail websites.

“Walmart is always a must”, she said. People want to know the Target Black Friday 2016 working hours so that they can visit the stores at their convenience.

But it’s those very shoppers retailers are trying to keep as loyal customers, working to improve their own online sites and letting people pick up purchases in the store as the retailers try to fend off the Amazon juggernaut.