The first iPhone 7 Black Friday 2016 deals are here and you don’t need to mess with bad crowds, shopping on Thanksgiving or getting up early to get them.
Not everyone agreed to the new trend of starting Black Friday on Thanksgiving. We got there at 3 p.m. and we were No. 30 in line, and we were first in line for the cellphones.
There have been ten billion-dollar spending days on desktop through Black Friday this year, while last year at this point in the season only Thanksgiving and Black Friday had reached that threshold.
“Between online and the spreading out of all the deals throughout the month, we’ve seen much more calm and civilized and very different process for shopping”, said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at NPD Group.
For the entire holiday season, PlayStation 4 is the best-selling video game console, Pokémon Sun & Moon top video game sales, Samsung 4K TV is the most sold television, and iPad Air 2 leads among tablet sales.
E-commerce sales rose 10.8 percent for the two-day period, while sales at physical stores grew 8.6 percent, according to First Data, which analyzed online and in-store payments across different forms of payment cards from almost one million merchants Thanksgiving and Friday.
With more than $540 million in sales from midnight Monday to 10 a.m. ET, Adobe Systems (ADBE) estimates Cyber Monday sales will reach $3.36 billion, up 9.4% from a year ago. In the area of Toys, top-selling are Lego, Shopkins, and Nerf.
The flock of online shoppers is not yet finished as Cyber Monday hits. And like those shoppers who were able to find deals on Black Friday, the deals, today, can be found on-line. That’s compared to previous year, when shoppers were more evenly split, with 103 million...
Adobe measures 80% of all online transactions from the top 100 US retailers, more than any other technology company, and uses its proven predictive model powered by Adobe Sensei to forecast online sales and trends.
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.