Black Friday sales are here – but where are the shoppers?

Despite being one of the first retailers to promote Black Friday, American-owned Asda has this year stepped away from the idea after shoppers were filmed fighting one another for bargains in their stores in 2014.

Harrison said the last two months of the year account for 25 percent of sales for many retailers.

Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, is the beginning of Christmas shopping in the United States of America, with retailers offering deep discounts online, and with YouShop, Kiwis have access to savings like never before.

Perhaps it was the long operating hours and crazed early-morning shoppers that prompted REI, the venerable outdoor retailer, to close all its stores today in a kind of Black Friday rebellion. Some Various Predictions In comparison with the relative gloom-and-doom of the aforementioned reports, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has a way more optimistic determination of this yr’s Black Fri. numbers, estimating a possible for 135.eight million consumers on-line & in stores over Thanksgiving weekend.

However, by this point, retailers who started their promotions early are already offering customers 60% to 75% off the remnants of their stock.

New Look in the Pride Hill centre enjoyed bumper sales a year ago.

Tracy Sallis, 43, also came to the store with her mother to pick up some Black Friday deals.

“Our late night shopping is always a big draw and we’re looking forward to having a real influx of shoppers here over the next few weeks”. Carts that will sit in different areas of the mall for the holiday shopping season include Katie’s Beef Jerky, the Almond Shop, Papa Boyd’s (specialty popcorn), Hickory Farms and Country View Barns, Billingsley said.

She said: “It was hazardous previous year, people were pulling stuff from one another”.

When it comes to what people are buying, it seems the most popular items will be clothes and accessories, according to the NRF, with six in 10 people buying those items. The Brits recently imported Black Friday, and retailers across the Atlantic fear overwhelming demand this year. “And I think consumers are doing that from what I hear anecdotally”, he said.

It involves retailers cutting the price of their goods to encourage households to get back into shops after the United States public holiday and it kickstarts the Christmas shopping period.

She said: “People have less money than before, so this gives them a chance to buy things they wouldn’t usually buy”.