Online sales surge on Black Friday, with Amazon topping discounts

Holiday shoppers eager to snag big discounts turned to the internet in record fashion this week, one tracking company said, driving online sales on Black Friday to a new high.

Stores across the USA opened their doors Friday for what is still one of the busiest shopping days of the year, with hundreds of shoppers flooded into, and in some cases lining up in front of malls to get the best Black Friday deals as the start of the holiday shopping season edging closer year over year.

Amazon said on Friday that mobile orders on Thanksgiving topped last year’s holiday and Cyber Monday combined.

The annual sales event has been associated with bedlam as shoppers in previous years packed into stores, pushing and shoving to get their hands on the latest deals.

“You go until you drop”, Warren said, adding the pair planned to hit up many other retailers later that day. Shoppers are out in full force Friday, November 25th, hoping to get in on those sweet deals.

The retailer said that Target.com saw double-digit growth on Thanksgiving, marking its biggest day ever, driven by deals on electronics.

Sure, she says, she could have bought online.

“This is a great time of year to come and take advantage of all the aggressive promotions and deals that the retail store have”, said Valle. It now offers 23 million products online, almost triple from last year’s holiday shopping season. It’s more like teleshopping but a hybrid version online format and the medium of purchasing the featured Walmart Cyber Monday 2016 deal on the live show streaming will be via Walmart’s e-commerce marketplace platforms – in-app and through its official website – instead of phone call. But it includes online spending and other non-store sales such as catalog spending.

The cold weather didn’t stop shoppers from hitting the malls, looking for Black Friday bargains. That excludes vehicle sales, gas and restaurant receipts, but includes online spending and other non-store sales such as catalog spending.

As Black Friday ushers in the year-end shopping rush, chains are touting larger price cuts than in 2015 – a gamble that maintaining market share is worth squeezing margins. The retailer said it was witnessing heavy customer traffic. Shopping data for Black Friday is expected to be released this weekend.

As time goes on, more and more people start to embrace online shopping, as well.

Meanwhile, in-store traffic is expected to fall 3 to 4 percent for Black Friday once final numbers are published, according to analysts at Cowen and Co., though this number will be offset by a 20 percent increase in online customer traffic.

“I was here a year ago and it did kind of ice and sleet”. Increasingly, the 44-year-old is doing more of her shopping online. Online sales are expected to be up 7 percent to 10 percent to as much as $117 billion, compared to a 9 percent growth rate a year ago. “I got shirts for like $2”, she said.

“What’s happening is the department stores have really ramped up their online omni-channel presence, basically integrating the online with their brick-and-mortar stores where customers can buy online and pick up at the stores”, Parmar said. Wal-Mart is starting its deals at its stores at 6 p.m. on the turkey feast, the same time as past year.