Lego, iPad drive sales on Black Friday in the US

Shoppers spent $3.45 billion online on Cyber Monday, almost $100 million more than Adobe forecast.

As in the past few years, the winners in weekend sales were retail giants Amazon, Walmart, Target and Best Buy with the best sellers being ultra HDTVs and gaming consoles. Walmart’s Cyber Week deals include the ASUS 11.6-inch Chromebook available for only $159 instead of $199 regular price tag. “Frankly, many were researching what to get next, after scoring online and in-store Black-Thursday deals”.

“Cyber Monday is one of our busiest days of the year”, Pennebaker said.

Britons are estimated to have spent a total of £5.8bn over the four days between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The gourmet food maker sells to Amazon.com, Overstock.com as well as their own website.

Norman Fong, co-founder of BuyVia, an online shopping site that aggregates deals, discusses the impact of free shipping on online purchases. Prime members also get early access to select daily deals, gold box deals, and lightning deals.

Sporting good also have been included in the discounted items.

As of Monday morning, about 46% of consumers browsed Cyber Monday deals on their smartphone, while 43% of consumers did so on a desktop, according to data from Adobe. Both options will bring you to the same choices and items for sale. But so-called Cyber Monday may be in danger of losing its online sales title.

Gap and Banana Republic are offering 50 percent off everything. Try going to the watches section and choosing 70 percent off. Retailers that have invested in mobile, email and social have seen 30% more sales on average and 25% higher average order values. If you check regularly or use the deals app, you’re certain to find them.

Numerous deals that shoppers found on Thursday, they’ll see again on Cyber Monday. Amazon presents Oprah’s Favorite Things.

Online sales over the extra-long Thanksgiving weekend are on track to hit a record $12.7 billion, goosed by an expected chart-topping performance on Cyber Monday, according to estimated tallies from Adobe Digital Insight.

IBM said pre-holiday online shopping was up 10 percent over 2015, and that this momentum likely pointed to similar gains for the early season. According to Forbes, this is the first time to happen in the retail history that the revenue exceeded $1 billion in one day through mobile shopping alone.

The momentum heading into the one-day online shopping event is stronger than ever, with some 135 million USA adults having shopped over the course of the past four days, according to data from the Consumer Technology Association.