Shop savvy on Cyber Monday

Online spending on Black Friday increased 14 percent from 2014. When surfing the site, consumers will absolutely find it really easy and comfortable to get their needed information about the deals of a hundreds trendy and famous brands as well as a pretty number of high quality products with the reasonable price.

At first blush, this past Black Friday weekend was a disappointment. Friday witnessed a decrease of more than $1bn as sales fell from $11.6bn previous year to $10.4bn. As a comparison, the federation said an estimated 151 million people shopped on Black Friday this year (either in-store or online).

“Millennials have changed the game when it comes to Thanksgiving weekend shopping, making sure they were out early and often over the entire weekend in order to tackle their gift lists as well as their self-gifting lists”, Goodfellow said.

“After participating in Not One Dime, economic resistance during black Friday with several protests, Hands Up United and its supporters are now leading into exposing the real terrorists”. Overall, Black Friday sales at retail stores were down more than 10 percent year over year, according to consumer research firm ShopperTrak.

“The increased level of competition in the retail arena also means that retailers are likely to continue extending discounts throughout the holiday season, meaning the combined Black Friday/Cyber Monday season is likely to continue to decline in importance over time”, a team of researchers at LPL Financial wrote in a research note last week.

Among digital bargain hunters, the survey found 41 million people (39.8 percent) said they shopped online on Thanksgiving Day and 75.3 million (73.1 percent) shopped online on Black Friday.

Cyber Monday is Amazon’s biggest day of the year. The transition hasn’t always been smooth: Yesterday, Target’s website buckled briefly under the weight of Cyber Monday traffic.

Shoppers traded bricks for clicks on Monday, flocking online to snap up “Cyber Monday” deals on everything from cashmere sweaters to Star Wars toys.

By midday, total e-commerce sales are up 13.3 percent year-over-year, which is slightly below the 15 percent growth rate expected by ChannelAdvisor.

The year is coming to an end, thus marking the beginning of another season of shopping bonanzas.

Rob Fenton, UK MD of business data agency fifty-five, said: “Cyber Monday struggles to attract such a devoted level of attention among British shoppers”.

In terms of safety online, it’s actually statistically safer to shop at home with a credit card than to use it at the mall, but there are still things to look for to make sure your purchases are secure. “Having so many different ways to browse and shop on retail sites will have played a part as well, with £495m being spent on smartphones and tablets on Black Friday”.