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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Amazon scored a huge win from both the surge in cybershoppers and a spike in the number of shoppers cross-checking online prices before purchasing at a bricks-and-mortar store. (Read "Black Friday Sales Were Encouraging, Retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners and Losers from Black Friday Weekend | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...said it saw a 20% increase in the amount of money people spent using PayPal to purchase items this Black Friday from last year and a 140% spike in the volume of payments made by mobile phones. The mobile-phone transaction increase indicates that buyers shopping at brick-and-mortar sites were likely price-checking items with their mobile phones and then purchasing the item where they found it the cheapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Black Friday, Doubts Grow About a Shopping Uptick | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...TOKYO, JAPAN CON-CAN Movie Festival This is an online festival instead of a bricks-and-mortar event, but in almost every other respect CON-CAN (the name is formed from the Japanese words meaning "soul" and "true appreciation") is the same as any other film gathering. There are rigorous standards of entry, and both audience voters as well as a prestigious jury. Prizes are handed out at an annual, actual awards night in Tokyo, where CON-CAN is headquartered. Movies, archives and more can be seen at en.con-can.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Festival Circuit | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Some of the sales bump is likely resulting from an expansion of the Black Friday sales hours. Many brick-and-mortar retailers opened their doors as early as midnight - rather than the traditional 6 a.m. shotgun start, and some offered their door-crasher deals online even earlier - on Thanksgiving day. "Many retailers took their Black Friday sale items and put them online on Thursday starting just after midnight on Wednesday," says Fiona Dias, executive vice president of strategy and marketing for GSI Commerce, a company that runs about 80 e-commerce websites for retailers and fashion designers. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Friday Sales Were Encouraging, Retailers Say | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...Still, Friday had its own energy - early data indicates traffic for the day to both brick-and-mortar retailers and online retail sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Friday Sales Were Encouraging, Retailers Say | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

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