Posts Tagged ‘ Holiday ’
One of the hottest products this year is the Zhu Zhu Pet, an electronic pet hamster that is selling out of retailers all over the country. Searches jumped for ‘zhu zhu’ related-terms last week as compared to the previous week: ‘zhu zhu hamster’ increased 53%, ‘zhu zhu pets’ increased 135% and ‘zhu zhu’ increased 107%. [...][ 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 ]
With many consumers remaining cautious with spending, retailers are turning to layaway programs again this holiday season to offer shoppers a payment plan to buy gifts. In 2008, layaway programs made a comeback as retailers hoped to encourage shoppers to spend during the recession. Searches for the term ‘layaway’ jumped as consumer awareness increased about [...][ READ MORE ]
An article about the success of the Snuggie in AdAge on Monday prompted me to compare the popularity of the two competing ‘blankets with arms’ – the Snuggie and the Slanket. I’m sure everyone has been plagued with the problem of cold arms when tasked with any type of activity while using a blanket, so [...][ 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 ]
Search engines accounted for the largest share of upstream traffic to the Retail 500 ahead of cross-shopping on other retail websites and email during the holiday months of November and December. An integral part of every retailer’s marketing strategy; the share of visits being referred by the combination of paid and organic search has grown [...][ 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 ]
What do people do over the holiday break (other than catch up with friends on Facebook, resolve to diet and hit the gym)? Go to the movies. Christmas Day was the busiest day of the year in share of US Internet visits for websites in the Movies category. IMDB, the top ranked Movie website and [...][ READ MORE ]
Search remains king for retailers during this holiday season, with referrals from search engines responsible for driving the largest share of visits to the Retail 500. Last week, 30% of the upstream traffic to the Retail 500 was from search engines, up 6% from the same week last year. Google represented 72% of all search [...][ READ MORE ]
