Knowing that time is at a premium on this holiday weekend, we’ll just rattle off a few quick holiday sales headlines with links and you can pick what you want to read while you enjoy your leftover Thanksgiving turkey sandwich.
Tasty! That would pretty much sum up the first day of Thanksgiving sales online which reached $4.2 billion, up 14.5% with 45% of sales via mobile devices. More results follow.
Online shopping on Thanksgiving hit $4.2B, up 14.5% on 2018, 45% of sales via mobile
With popular social networks seeing some downtime, most shops closed, and many people off work for Thanksgiving, bargain hunters flocked online to start their holiday shopping. Sales for the day totaled $4.2 billion, according to research from Adobe Analytics. That makes this year the first time that Thanksgiving Day online sales have passed the milestone $4 billion mark, with sales up 14.5% on last year’s online sales of $3.7 billion. Read more…
Black Friday 2019 Live Updates: Online sales up 19.2% from a year ago
Is anyone going to the stores on Black Friday? The online sales data continues to impress. As of 9:00 a.m. ET, online sales on Black Friday are up 19.2% from the prior year to $600 million, according to Adobe Analytics. The day is on track to reach $7.4 billion in sales. Abobe also confirmed Thanksgiving Day broke the $4 billion sales mark online for the first time. Sales on turkey day gained 14.5% year-over-year. Read more…
Black Friday 2019: Key stats and takeaways as they come in
Bargain hunters have flocked online to start their holiday shopping with Adobe reporting, as of 2 pm Pacific time, $2.1 billion had been spent online, up 20.2% on the same period a year ago. Prior to that, Adobe said $470 million has been spent online at 10 am, a rise of 14.5% compared to sales figures from the same time last year. Overall, sales patterns are largely on track to hit Adobe’s prediction of $4.4 billion in sales today. Read more…
Black Friday is make-or-break time for retailers
Comparable-store retail sales gained 1.3% in the first two weeks of the month, according to Fiserv… Consumer online spending is projected at US$57.5 billion so far in the season — or 16% higher than a year earlier. Adobe sees e-commerce sales reaching US$7.5 billion on Black Friday and US$9.4 billion on Cyber Monday — both about 205 higher than in 2018. Read more…
Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down for many around the world (Update: Back up!)
There appears to be a major outage impacting Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook itself. Many users are reporting that the apps appear to work but aren’t actually pulling anything new, instead of just showing whatever they’ve got cached from before the servers went down. Others can’t even get the page to load. Update: As of about 9:30 AM Pacific the services appear to be coming back online. Read more…
Lots more holiday weekend sales updates and expert analysis to follow in the days ahead.
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