After all the hype, commercials and news reports advertising incredible sales on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, the National Retail Federation (NRF) suggests that there were fewer sales and shoppers this year than in 2013. It has been reported that the NRF discovered 5.1 … [Read more...]
Brutal Black Friday Behavior Hits Great Britain
American consumers are often lambasted by outsiders for their questionable behavior on Black Friday - or now Gray Thursday - as they scuffle, yell profanities and beat up their own grandmother to get $50 off a Polaroid television. Well, now that type of behavior has inflicted British … [Read more...]
Holiday Shopping Trends Exposed in New Poll
Over the course of the next few weeks, American shoppers will plow through each other at the department stores, malls and retail outlets. Surely, YouTube will be consumed with numerous videos depicting shoppers as ravenous savages getting into arguments with cashiers over a … [Read more...]
U.S. Economy Third-quarter Growth Revised to 3.9%
The United States economy had actually grew higher in the third quarter than what had initially been calculated. Due to greater business and consumer spending, the gross domestic product inched higher to 3.9 percent during the July-to-September period, an increase from 3.5 percent … [Read more...]
12 Top Holiday Scams, Don’t be the Next Sucker
Christmas is more than a month away, but that hasn't stopped retailers from ramping up their holiday sales and scattering decorations all over their stores. Also, it hasn't prevented cyber criminals from moving forward with their data breaches, scams and security infiltration … [Read more...]
Retailers Staying Open All Night for Gray Thursday (Black Friday)
If you didn't think the holiday shopping season was a fierce, competitive battle between retailers all over the United States then one glance at the growing Gray Thursday trend will open your eyes. More retailers announced their intentions for Thanksgiving Day, a time when … [Read more...]
Canada Set for Ecommerce Explosion
It has been acknowledged for quite a while now that Canadians have been slow to adopt many of the shopping practices of their neighbors to the south. As millions of American consumers have used ecommerce, mobile shopping and in-store pickup for years now, Canadians are only slowly … [Read more...]
Google Inc. ‘Express’ Has Fedex in its Target with Same day Shipping
Google has now started charging its customers for Google Express, which offers its customers shopping delivery on the same day or the next depending on what you prefer. With Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Express, the internet giant is entering this extremely competitive domain with its … [Read more...]
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