The online shopping environment will slacken, very slightly, from the one last year. Over 121` million people will shop online in 2015 compared to 126.9 million, according to the National Retail Federation and research…
After Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, all retailers are now turning their sites to Cyber Monday. Wait, Cyber Monday deals have already started. All of these online and in-store deals may have been…
Thanksgiving weekend shoppers, especially online shoppers, had their eyes squarely on deals for virtually all kinds of consumer electronics gear. And according to IBM’s Watson Trend website, the most talked about products were Samsung…
Most data showed that store traffic was slow and e-commerce was fast. This new normal in retail pushed Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD) into Cyber-Monday with large discounts, some as high as 25%, as it began…
Most data showed that store traffic was slow and e-commerce was fast. This new normal in retail pushed desperate Macy’s (NYSE: M) into Cyber-Monday with large discounts, some as high as 40%, as it…
According to IBM’s measurements, Black Friday online sales rose 20.7% as mobile sales moved ahead of desktop, through 6 PM. Almost certainly, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) was the primary beneficiary, due to its extremely large…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) fought a battle on two fronts on Black Friday. In the first, it heavily promoted membership to its Prime service, which includes streaming video and aims at Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) and…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has a number of products on which its has offered prices reductions. According to the world’s largest retailer these are the “hottest deals of the year”. Walmart’s challenge is that every…
Online sales are expected to rise again this weekend as all those promised Black Friday deals finally kick-in. Many retailers, including Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) have been running…
Reading the tea leaves hoping to produce an accurate forecast of Black Friday weekend sales essentially always makes for a good story that turns out to be wrong. That doesn’t stop nearly everyone from…
In a survey of consumers completed in mid-October by website BestBlackFriday.com, nearly two-thirds of consumers said that they do not believe they will get the best holiday season deals by shopping the Black Friday…
Before the turkey is even put into the oven, Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has Black Friday doorbuster items available at its online store. Most brick-and-mortar stores open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving…
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) has joined in on the ranks of companies issuing massive discounts and door-busters for Black Friday. As a reminder, GameStop’s hours were expanded to open at 5:00 a.m. local time…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) wins, again. Research firm comScore expects digital commerce to rise 14% to $70 billion. While the growth rate for e-commerce has pulled back from the days when it was well into…
Online sales are up 21% year-over-year through Tuesday.
