Word: holidays
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Best Buy, Walmart and Amazon were the shining stars as all three successfully used heavy marketing strategies and doorbuster prices, especially in electronics, to lure shoppers. (See TIME's 2009 holiday gift guide...
Electronics stores, toy retailers and certain teen-oriented apparel companies were big winners over the Black Friday holiday weekend, with door-crashing specials and price discounts attracting much of the traffic and sales, analysts...
...cyberworld that scored the biggest gains this past holiday weekend. Online sales rose 35% on Black Friday and 14% on Cyber Monday from the same periods last year, according to Coremetrics, a Web-marketing firm. The average dollar amount per online order shot up 35% on Black Friday and 38% on Cyber Monday from a year earlier, the firm said...
...survey conducted by Nielsen, 59% of consumers indicated they planned to shop at least once at Amazon during the holiday season, says Ken Cassar, a Nielsen analyst...
...that the winners on Black Friday will not necessarily be the champions on Dec. 31. Tom Stemberg, former CEO and founder of Staples, and now managing partner of the Highland Consumer Fund, sees no correlation between Black Friday sales and a retailer's ultimate success or failure over the holiday season. "Black Friday sales are about as meaningful as Groundhog Day is to the weather forecast," says Stemberg. "What happens is every retailer blows his brains out with these door-crasher deals trying to generate traffic...