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Record-breaking Black Friday goes digital as holiday shopping embraces online convenience; Cyber Monday sales skyrocket

Shopping mania is at an all-time high during the 2024 holiday season, with Adobe forecasting Cyber Monday’s record-high peak will surpass Black Friday to become the biggest shopping day of the year. Despite the shopping holiday previously being “anchored by in-store shopping,” Pandy noted that “with mobile, AI, and chatbots reshaping consumer behaviour, we expect online sales to continue growing …

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Cyber Monday: Shoppers expected to spend record $13.2 billion online, report says

Hindustan Times

Cyber Monday, held on the Monday after the worldwide Black Friday sale tradition, is expected to clock sales worth at least $13.2 billion, 6.1% more than the previous year, according to online shopping tracker Adobe Analytics. FILE - Cyber Monday –- a term coined back in 2005 by the National Retail Federation –- continues to be the biggest online shopping …

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3 weeks ago

Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year’s biggest day for online shopping

Associated Press

Consumers in the United States are scouring the internet for online deals as they look to take advantage of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people’s regular routines and the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation — has become …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Online vape retailers ignore rules meant to protect minors, UCSD study finds

LA Times

Public health researchers at UC San Diego tested whether 78 online retailers complied with federal and local rules on flavored vaping products. The results of the study, which were published online Monday by the Journal of the American Medical Assn., showed that more than two-thirds of the buyers successfully obtained flavored vapes, including almost 70% of the buyers in the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Coupang Falls After Disappointing Retail Sales in Third Quarter

Live Mint

-- Coupang Inc. slid in late trading on Tuesday after reporting retail net sales that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Net income fell in the quarter, reflecting losses at Farfetch, the online luxury company Coupang acquired in January. The company’s sales growth was still in the double-digit range for the seventh consecutive quarter, propelled by its nascent business forays …

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High Street Revival: The Comeback of Physical Shopping in Europe

China Daily

High street stores are making a comeback in Europe, signaling a lessening of consumer desire for the convenience of online shopping. Physical shopping is not necessarily a vote in favor of real-world retail and against the online experience, however. Many shops have now taken on board digital features such as touch-screen options for customers to use in store.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

European retailers are reviving physical stores to boost online sales and attract shoppers

The Hindu

European retailers are investing in physical shops to stimulate both online and offline sales as they face increasing competition from giant e-commerce companies. They want to capitalize on people's renewed appetite for visiting shops once COVID-19 lockdowns ended, which has made a Saturday afternoon shopping spree fashionable again.

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Traders in Kochi gear up for Onam as they hope to ride out online sales, rain

The Hindu

Traders in Kochi, especially those dealing in textiles and white goods, are keeping fingers crossed as they wait to see how the Onam market rides out an unpredictable weather and competition from online sales platforms. ‘Big threat’ The weather apart, new technology and online marketing companies have eaten into a large chunk of the old brick-and-mortar shop sales. “People now …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Your old clothes are worth billions

Live Mint

Closets are full of unworn clothes ready for purging, thrifting is in vogue, and everybody’s looking for a good deal these days. The U.S. secondhand apparel market was worth about $43 billion last year, according to an annual market report from the online apparel reseller ThredUp. Shares of the online seller ThredUp and the bricks-and-mortar thrift-store chain Savers Value Village …

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7 months ago

China's online retail sales up 11.5% in January-April period

China Daily

A staff member sells summer oranges via live broadcasts at a digital e-commerce center in Zigui county, Yichang, Hubei province on Aug 4, 2023. BEIJING - China's online retail sales saw steady expansion in the first four months of 2024, with emerging growth forces continuing to boost consumption, official data showed on Tuesday. The country's online retail sales rose 11.5 …

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1 year ago

Cyber Monday 2023 is here - What it is? and everything you need to know

India TV News

What is Cyber Monday? Notably, In 2005, the National Retail Federation came up with the term "Cyber Monday" to encourage post-Black Friday online shopping. Difference Between Cyber Monday and Black Friday Black Friday, occurring on the Friday after Thanksgiving, is a busy day for in-store shopping in the US. So, while Black Friday is about in-store bargains, Cyber Monday takes …

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1 year ago

Cyber Monday 2023: Date, history, significance and everything you need to know

Hindustan Times

Cyber Monday 2023: The Monday after the US Thanksgiving weekend is known in the e-commerce world as "Cyber Monday". The result is that Cyber Monday and Black Friday have combined to create a hybrid online and in-store shopping experience that makes it difficult to distinguish between the two days. Cyber Monday is a popular online shopping event that takes place …

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2 years ago

Cyber Monday deals lure in consumers amid high inflation

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Days after flocking to stores on Black Friday, consumers are turning online for Cyber Monday to score more discounts on gifts and other items that have ballooned in price because of high inflation. Cyber Monday is expected to remain the year’s biggest online shopping day and rake in up to $11.6 billion in sales, according to Adobe …

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2 years ago

Inflation hovers over shoppers seeking deals on Black Friday

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Cautious shoppers hunted for the best deals at stores and online as retailers offered new Black Friday discounts to entice consumers eager to start buying holiday gifts but weighed down by inflation. The traffic was “significantly larger” on Black Friday compared to the previous two years because shoppers feel more comfortable in crowds, Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette …

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2 years ago

Shoppers flood to stores on Black Friday - even as more people shop online for deals

Daily Mail

More shoppers are also ordering their deals online - despite thousands of Amazon warehouse workers staging a mass Black Friday strike across 40 countries, including the US, over pay and working conditions Shoppers returned to familiar holiday shopping patterns to bag a bargain this Black Friday after two seasons marked by pandemic worries and supply issues. More shoppers are also …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Almost £14bn business rates relief welcomed as online sales tax scrapped

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On Thursday, the Treasury said: “Following consultation, the Government …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Amazon Prime Day comes amid slowdown in online sales growth

Associated Press

Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday much differently than how it entered the pandemic. Amazon doesn’t disclose Prime Day results, though research firm Insider Intelligence suggests sales could climb to about $12.5 billion in global sales — or 17% over last year -- in part because of the event’s mid-July timing, which compared to …

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3 years ago

Online Christmas shopping soars as Australia Post scrambles to deliver presents on time

ABC

A record number of presents under the Christmas tree are likely to have been purchased online this year, as Australia Post scrambles to deliver more than 1 million parcels in Queensland this week. Key points: People over the age of 12 must wear masks at all times in shops under current COVID-19 restrictions in Queensland Australians are set to spend …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Singles Day presale frenzy reveals China's consumption vitality

China Daily

Members of the media attend the Alibaba Group's 11.11 Singles Day global shopping festival at a media center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, November 10, 2020. A resident from Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, surnamed Luo said she was "sober" in the first hour after the presales started until she joined a livestream studio on the e-commerce platform Taobao. …

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3 years, 2 months ago

For these young people in privileged parts of the world, the pandemic was an opportunity

LA Times

Jung Gyu-ho became an inventive young capitalist in the middle of a pandemic. “In countries where there’s poor access to internet, weak infrastructure, it’s that much harder to take advantage.” The disparate fortunes emerging from the pandemic foreshadow what’s likely to be, for today’s young adults, a lifetime defined by cascading crises in which prosperity may ebb and flow. “The …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Retail sales boost cools as consumers spend on entertainment

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Shoppers are increasingly concerned about food and grocery price …

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3 years, 4 months ago

MSMEs resent new provisions in e-commerce rules

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Fifty-eight per cent of micro, small and medium enterprises want the government to reconsider the amendment it made recently to the Consumer Protection rules 2020. In a survey by Local Circles, it was noted that over 3,000 businesses have seen a jump in online sales from 50 to 100 per cent. Sujath Ali, a small businessman in the gaming …

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3 years, 6 months ago

How L.A.’s indie bookstores survived the worst of the pandemic

LA Times

Jazzi McGilbert, left, founder and owner of Reparations Club, chats with customer Katy Burgess as bookstores reopen fully to browsers. The staff members of Reparations Club, McGilbert’s bookstore near Jefferson and Crenshaw boulevards, are taking actual vacations instead of time off for COVID-19 testing or “playing-it-safe sick days,” McGilbert said. “I’ve been ordering online all year and this is my …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Trip to space with Jeff Bezos sells for $28 million

The Hindu

An auction for a ride into space next month alongside Jeff Bezos and his brother ended with a winning $28 million bid on Saturday. The Amazon founder’s rocket company, Blue Origin, did not disclose the winner’s name following the live online auction. It will be the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket with people on board, kicking off …

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Record-breaking Black Friday goes digital as holiday shopping embraces online convenience; Cyber Monday sales skyrocket

Cyber Monday: Shoppers expected to spend record $13.2 billion online, report says

Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year’s biggest day for online shopping

Online vape retailers ignore rules meant to protect minors, UCSD study finds

Coupang Falls After Disappointing Retail Sales in Third Quarter

High Street Revival: The Comeback of Physical Shopping in Europe

European retailers are reviving physical stores to boost online sales and attract shoppers

Traders in Kochi gear up for Onam as they hope to ride out online sales, rain

Your old clothes are worth billions

China's online retail sales up 11.5% in January-April period

Cyber Monday 2023 is here - What it is? and everything you need to know

Cyber Monday 2023: Date, history, significance and everything you need to know

Cyber Monday deals lure in consumers amid high inflation

Inflation hovers over shoppers seeking deals on Black Friday

Shoppers flood to stores on Black Friday - even as more people shop online for deals

Almost £14bn business rates relief welcomed as online sales tax scrapped

Amazon Prime Day comes amid slowdown in online sales growth

Online Christmas shopping soars as Australia Post scrambles to deliver presents on time

Singles Day presale frenzy reveals China's consumption vitality

For these young people in privileged parts of the world, the pandemic was an opportunity

Retail sales boost cools as consumers spend on entertainment

MSMEs resent new provisions in e-commerce rules

How L.A.’s indie bookstores survived the worst of the pandemic

Trip to space with Jeff Bezos sells for $28 million