Black Friday in the Northland

That’s a change from the massive crush that used to mark Black Friday store openings.

But the crowds didn’t ebb.

The mall has also added a new clothing and accessory store for girls by the name of Daughter Dear.

Analysts interpreted the move by Walmart and other maneuvers by Target Corp. and J.C. Penney Co.as an attempt to win shoppers back from Amazon.com, whose product discounts and shipping promotions are eating away at retail profits. Other stores followed and were open through Friday at 9 p.m. Keeping that in mind, there’s no doubt that over the next few years the autumnal shopping event will become more streamlined and appealing, constituting the start of the Christmas shopping period, allowing shoppers to reap the benefits with better offers and longer sales. With sales starting earlier and competition with the internet, could you still find that great deal on Black Friday?

Best Buy handed out tickets to avoid any pushing and shoving as televisions and tablets went fast, and the non-stop ad campaign for the new “Star Wars” trilogy continued into Black Friday.

For this shopper who drove from Holdenville for Black Friday in the metro, she has this advice for shoppers battling more winter weather this weekend.

The Dunham’s manager said the store was up slightly in sales compared to Thanksgiving and Black Friday past year.

They said they’ve had thousands of people walk through their doors between last night and this afternoon.

“The big challenge is to make money off of mobile because there is a ton of traffic coming from mobile devices. but what we call mobile conversion rates, the percent of people that actually buy after going to a mobile site is pretty low”, Mulpuru says.

Meanwhile, at Northgate Mall – the Hixson mall also owned by CBL Properties – it was a similar story.

“There’s a generation that cares more about experiences than they do things”, Barr said “Millennials really are transforming that overall shopping experience”.

But the huge volume of traffic – Ebay is expecting nine million Britons to visit its website today – means that the websites of many retailers are struggling to cope. On this day, most major retailers starts their sales online at midnight.

“The numbers are down but it’s still a better sales trend during the two days than we have seen for physical retail through the year and especially after a very hard summer and October”, Shelley Kohan, vice president of retail consulting at RetailNext, said.

And Small Business Saturday is a big part of that.

She made a decision to do her shopping on Black Friday this year instead. For $20 more, you can get a game, too, so you should just do that. And sales on Thanksgiving dropped by the same percentage, to $1.8 billion. It’s just a different sale for every hour.

“Christmas time is the busiest season for marriage proposals”, she said.

US online retail sales during the holiday season are expected to total $95.5 billion, an 11 percent increase over past year, according to Forrester. Earlier this year, Amazon officials announced the hiring of thousands of seasonal workers for the holidays, including at its Chattanooga and Charleston, Tenn., fulfillment centers.