Despite Breaking Online Black Friday Records, US Shoppers Pay a Price
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Auzinea Bacon, CNN Retail sales in the US during Black Friday, the most active shopping day of the year, increased by 4.1 percent compared to last year, according to data released this Saturday by Mastercard SpendingPulse. Only online buyers spent US$11.8 billion, 9.1 percent more than in 2024, according to the Adobe Analytics data collection platform. However, those profits do not consider higher price increases due t…
Despite breaking online Black Friday records, US shoppers pay a price
Millions of Americans across the U.S. reheated their Thanksgiving leftovers on Friday, before hitting the shops or logging online in search of the plumpest, juiciest savings of the 2025 holiday shopping season. However, while online Black Friday sales broke records this year, some experts say it was the consumer who got gobbled up. Given that Black Friday has transformed from a single-day event into a days-long affair, Melissa Minkow, global dir…
The United States experienced a historic Black Friday, at least on the digital front. Despite economic concerns and persistent inflation, the
RetailNext: the era of the impulse holiday spree is ending as Black Friday in-store traffic drops across USA
Black Friday in-store traffic was down -3.6% across the USA, according to RetailNext, a specialist in retail intelligence and traffic analytics that works with the likes of Burberry, Bloomingdale’s, Disney Store, Macy’s, and Estée Lauder. Its research is based on data collected at tens of thousands of US stores across hundreds of brands operating on the RetailNext smart store platform and in a variety of retail segments, from big box brands to s…
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