According the the early stats, "Black Friday" and holiday ecommerce sales in the U.S. saw $4.45 billion in online sales, with $1.5 Billion coming from mobile.
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techcrunch.com...]
The UK stats indicate £1.1 Billion on just the Friday.
Whichever way you look at it, those are quite big figures of spending in just a very short period. [
uk.reuters.com...]
It seems many UK shoppers chose to avoid the scrum which occurred in the stores last year and switched from offline to online sales.
Clearly, this period is becoming a significant sales opportunity for some, although, when I looked on Friday evening to see what all the fuss was about, I didn't find too many really big reductions on anything I might have wanted. Personally, I didn't contribute to those figures at all. Oh, sorry, I did, I bought the wife a bunch of flowers, although they weren't discounted at all. No matter, it brought on a smile.
