NYC Holiday Shoppers Hit the Ground Running on Black Friday

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.

The crowd at Farmington’s Walmart Supercenter was not quite as large as in years past, but there were still plenty of shoppers on hand to take advantage of “Black Friday” sales that began at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. “Well, we might. It was okay, not what I thought it would be”, said Danielle Abercrombie and Miley Ruttley. Best Buy chief executive Hubert Joly asked on a conference call last week. Smartphones and tablets have made it easier for consumers to shop from the couch, and many more of them are now doing just that.

Linna Dubbs of Hanover was one of the shoppers who has been waiting this holiday shopping event. “The prices, you know, come down for people like me …”

Get your Hobby Lobby Black Friday fix starting at 8 a.m. Stores close at 9 in the evening.

Forget Doorbuster sales. This year, most of the action is taking place online.

“We leave around 4 p.m. and usually head to the Paris Walmart and start there”, she said.

The company unveiled its Cyber Monday plans which included more than 75,000 deals during the whole week to ensure that everyone can have something for themselves.

CBL also noted that by opening on Black Friday instead of Thanksgiving, its centers were filled with more “true shoppers” carrying around bags, versus teenagers simply strolling around.

Regardless, local stores are ready to accommodate the crush of holiday shoppers.

Email volumes by retailers sent out to customers who had opted to receive them were up 15% between October 1 and November 19, in comparison with that same period one year ago.

Ravi Jariwala, a Wal-Mart spokesman, told The Associated Press that three out of the four customers it polled said that they wanted to shop Cyber Monday deals earlier – after the kickoff in stores.

Instead of launching its massive online sales on Cyber Monday 2016, Walmart is releasing its Black Friday 2016 deals on Thanksgiving Day.

At Sawgrass Mills mall in Sunrise, doors opened early Friday morning and lines formed nearly immediately at some stores. Malloy said she hadn’t yet shopped online but usually does so.

The NRF, the nation’s largest retail group, expects holiday sales to rise 3.6 per cent for November and December, better than the 3 per cent growth seen for those months previous year. It reported on Friday that 70 per cent of the traffic to its website came from mobile devices. That excludes auto sales, gas and restaurant receipts. That excludes auto sales, gas and restaurant receipts, but includes online spending and other non-store sales such as catalog spending.