Shopping Deals Better than Black Friday

After a disappointing third quarter, Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren said he’s encouraged by the retailer’s Black Friday crowds.

USA e-commerce sales surged on Thanksgiving, raising questions about the fate of brick-and-mortar Black Friday promotions, the traditional kickoff to the holiday season.

Meanwhile, on its online store, VMware is slashing the prices of its Fusion and Workstation products by around 30 percent.

61% of Black Friday shoppers will look on the internet for certain keywords before doing their purchase which is why Google chose to chip in and help them out. “I would say right now it’s very consistent with what we’ve seen a year ago when we opened up at six o’clock as well”. “We are going to shop all the night”, said one shopper.

In what has become something of a Black Friday tradition around the country, at least two punchouts were reported in Kentucky at separate shopping malls, one in Louisville and one in Florence, the New York Daily News reports.

David Ober, general partner at Rockvale, said Black Friday at his 120-store mall was “equivalent to, if not better than, last year”.

At the Target in Lititz, Ayisha Collins said the store was “still as busy” on its fifth Black Friday as it was in the past, even though it had a robust Thanksgiving.

Shoppers who sacrificed hours waiting in line for a deal viewed the exercise as an alternative way to spend time with family, infused with every bit as much holiday spirit as a turkey dinner.

Nakeya Julian, a retail sales associate for The North Face in the Desert Hills Premium Outlets, said crowds had been coming in waves since the stores opened on Thanksgiving. In Nevada, RAN predicts more than 280,000 consumers will shop on the holiday this year, down from almost 380,000 in 2014.

By the end of the day retail analyst Experian-IMRG predicts that spending online will hit £1.07 billion, a 32% increase on last year’s £810 million.

Of course, the hours will vary by store, but Walmart will be open until midnight on Black Friday, with Target letting shoppers in until 11 p.m., with both stores having opened their doors beginning on Thanksgiving night. And it was a big deal when Park City opened at 7 a.m. on Black Friday, at that time its earliest opening ever. The National Retail Federation (NRF) says about 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

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