Posts Tagged ‘ Black Friday ’
Shoppers have plenty of gift buying left to do this season according to a survey released by the NRF which found that the average shopper had completed 46.7 percent of their holiday shopping by the second week of December, down 47.1 percent completed by this time last year. With just over two weeks left in [...][ READ MORE ]
Holiday shopping is in full swing now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us… sort of. Overall, visits to the Retail 500 were down on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday as compared to last year. Visits declined by 15% on Thanksgiving and by 9% on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday as [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week, our custom category of 155 Social Networking websites received just over 10% of all US Internet visits. With such a large audience, marketers have flocked to websites like Facebook and Twitter to reach out to consumers during the holiday shopping season. The share of downstream traffic to the Retail 500 coming from both [...][ READ MORE ]
When you start hearing about doorbuster sales and stores opening at 5 am, it can mean only one thing – Thanksgiving and Black Friday are almost upon us again! Retailers started to promote pre-Black Friday sales as early as late October and have been running sales for much of the month of November, but Friday [...][ READ MORE ]
Holiday projections are out and many are predicting a gloomy holiday season for retailers. The NRF forecasts a 1% decline growth in total retail sales for the 2009 holiday season, totaling $437.6 billion. The online channel is poised to fare somewhat better, with Forrester Research projecting an increase of 8% to $44.7 billion. The official [...][ READ MORE ]
On Friday, Circuit City announced that the company is closing 567 stores and will be laying off more than 30,000 workers. During the holiday season, despite being one the top visited websites among the Retail 500 on Thanksgiving (#5), Black Friday (#7), and Cyber Monday (#9), there was a decline in the market share of [...][ READ MORE ]
We all knew heading into the holiday season that consumers were going to be highly sensitive to price due to the economic conditions, paving the way for an increase in online deal seeking. Coupon websites experienced growth in visits throughout the holiday season as shoppers searched for promotional codes to use online and printable coupons [...][ READ MORE ]
The holiday shopping season is officially upon us and for some online retailers, prospects may be rosier than expected thanks to heavy promotional activity to encourage spending (and unfortunately also erode profit margins). On Thanksgiving, which has been the heaviest day of traffic to online retailers over the past 4 years, experienced an 11 percent [...][ READ MORE ]
Thanksgiving is almost here, time for turkey, pumpkin pie – and online shopping. Each year Thanksgiving is the peak traffic day to the Retail 500, particularly among many of the brick & mortar players, who use the online channel to help inform shoppers about in-store (and online) Black Friday deals. Although bad news about holiday [...][ READ MORE ]
With one week left to go, Black Friday (aka the day after Thanksgiving) is almost upon us. Historically, Black Friday sales were typically called After-Thanksgiving sales, but thanks to a growing number of websites leaking retailer promotions, Black Friday has become part of the vernacular for consumers (rather than an industry term). Both searches around [...][ READ MORE ]
