GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — ‘Tis the season for giving—or is it?
“I just got a jacket from Gap I really like,” said one Black Friday shopper.
According to the consumer research firm NPD group, this past Black Friday more people shopped for themselves than for gifts to give to others.
The survey found roughly 61% [...]
Sales for local retail shops range from modest to mediocre.
The day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday shoppers endured huge crowds and long lines for discounted items, but bargain hunters in Florence experienced a gentler atmosphere, while local businesses welcomed the additional traffic.
Nov. 27 is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, and old [...]
If there are any doubts that shoppers are motivated by price, Black Friday results settled that one.
But weak sales the rest of the month left major U.S. chain stores with largely disappointing November sales and much ground to make up in the critical December holiday shopping season.
The tally of mostly department stores and [...]
The final sales tally for Black Friday weekend may not be what retailers hoped for, but parts of it set new records. overall, ShopperTrak is reporting that weekend retail sales increased 1.6%, while shopper traffic actually declined 1.1% in the three-day period.
Spending on Black Friday itself rose just 0.5%, but it did hit $10.66 [...]
we had all assumed the PlayStation 3 would have a decent Black Friday, what with all the amazing software available and those bundle deals found at most every major retailer.
Well, the day that marks the official start to the holiday season – for retailers, anyway – was better than “decent” for Sony’s flagship [...]
Retail Sales Rise as Black Friday Discounts Lure U.S. Shoppers
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — U.S. retail sales rose for the 12thstraight week after Black Friday discounts lured holidayshoppers to malls.
Sales at stores open at least a year climbed 3.1 percent inthe week ended Nov. 28 from a year earlier, the InternationalCouncil of Shopping [...]
while Black Friday showed a slight uptick in sales from a year ago, Saturday posted even greater improvement, according to a report released Monday.
Retail sales rose 1.5 percent Saturday to $6.11 billion compared to the Saturday after Thanksgiving a year ago, according to ShopperTrak, RCT Corp.,a Chicago-based market research firm that measures mall traffic.
On [...]
For those of you in the U.S., I hope you had yourselves a very happy (and long) Thanksgiving weekend.
They’re never long enough.
So did anybody out there go and do a little shopping?
It seems that quite a few of you certainly went shopping online.
Me, I beat the rush, heading over to Amazon on Thanksgiving Day to [...]
Apple’s in-store sales fell sharply from 2008, while online sales soared
Apple’s busy fifth Ave. store. Photo: ped
A pair of reports from Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster tell the story.
The first, issued early Monday morning, gave the results of a headcount performed at three Apple (AAPL) retail stores on Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Shares of best Buy Co Inc , Amazon.com and American Eagle Outfitters Inc rose on Monday morning as investors bet they were gaining a larger share of spending over the holiday shopping season.
Shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc were flat premarket, as were shares of department store operator Macy’s , after early data [...]
