Black Friday Online Sales $595 million

Online retailers in the U.S. rang up $595 million on Black Friday, an 11% increase from the day a year ago according to comScore. Amazon got the highest growth 28% while Apple, Best Buy and Wal-Mart sites also experienced double-digit traffic gains. This includes all retail online sales of course not just toys, but is a great indicator. Total e-commerce for the month to date was a cool $10.5 billion.

Amazon maintains it's position as market leader and shows once again that it understands the web business better than any one else.

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Here it is Black Friday!

Black Friday Start of Xmas Shopping Season

Black Friday Coming Soon
This year it's Friday the 27th the day after Thanksgiving.Best Buy, Macys, Sears and Walmart will be apparently open 24 hours to satisfy demand. It signals the start of the Xmas shopping season. The expression Black Friday originates from the feared traffic snarl-ups that day and also reputedly it was the day in the year when the large retailers moved into profit.

The majority of people still buy most of their presents in the bricks and mortar stores but many have researched their purchases online before hand.

At Amazon I always read the buyers comments, read the good comments and the "intelligent" bad ones to get a clear picture :
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