Measurements from online research site Experian Hitwise show that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been the most visited e-commerce site during the holiday shopping season since 2006. It is in the process of extending that lead…
There are bits of research that say holiday e-commerce sales rose in the double digits over the Thanksgiving weekend and did even better on Monday. E-commerce sales have risen as a total percentage…
Most people would guess that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) would do well this holiday season–better than their respective competitors. Thanksgiving e-commerce traffic is that the online sales site and consumer electronics…
The fears about 2009 holiday sales may be coming true. Early research shows that retail activity was flat and in some regions fell sharply. ShopperTrak reports that dollar sales for the first…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Japan raised the idea that the G7 make a statement about the dollar. Reuters: Shoppers move into Black Friday with small budgets. Reuters: Dubai’s debt crisis raised the prospect of more trouble…
Black Friday is under 48 hours away. We have seen much data and much analysis out there on the topic, but there are two fairly easy conclusions here…. well, make it three. …
More than 13% of people who went to the top 500 retail websites went to Walmart.com for the week ending November 21. The number was up 77% from the previous week, which…
MasterCard Spending Plus, which tracks retail sales, says that consumer electronics products are moving off the shelves of stores but women’s apparel is not. A Wall Street Journal analysis of the data…
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will not wait until the day after Thanksgiving to begin its holiday sales. It wants to take whatever early shopping business it can get from Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), and…
24/7 Wall St. looked at a very large number of Nascar crashes to assess which were the most expensive. The crashes reviewed occurred between 2002 and the present. A Fox Sports analysis estimates…
We are right at a week away from the highly awaited Black Friday for 2009’s holiday and Christmas season. As you likely know, this is THE day that retailers look forward to…
Yesterday Soros Fund Management Filed a 13-F outlining the fund’s long portfolio as of September 30th, 2009. The total value of the holdings reported in the filing is $6,198,089. Twenty holdings represented…
Sony (NYSE:SNE) expects its holiday sales to be poor. That is terrible news for the consumer electronics and PC industries. Sony is a nearly perfect proxy for those sectors. It sells PCs, video games,…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will have too many retail stores at some point. It will face the “Starbucks problem” of over-building. Starbucks once boasted that it would eventually have 40,000 coffee shops worldwide. It…
Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) is about to release its “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II: video game. Sales are expected to be half a billion dollars in the first week. That would make it the…
