Black Friday by the Numbers
Black Friday is quickly approaching, and we all know what this means. Retailers are preparing for the post-Thanksgiving rush, and customers are doing their homework on the best-selling gifts, and where to find them at the best prices. But the holiday shopping season has changed considerably in the last several years, most notably with the recession, and because of the steady growth of online retail. Have you ever wondered what Black Friday figures consisted of? The following info-graphic illustrates some interesting facts and figures about what is generally referred to as the most popular shopping day of the year – we call it, “Black Friday, by the Numbers”:
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Circuit City was not yet in Chapter 11 at the time of last year’s Black Friday. Sales did not coincide with store closing / liquidation sales. They simply were the dominating big box chain retailer online. If you look at old Alexa data, CircuitCity.com was one of the top 50 domains worldwide and had more hits daily than CNN.com. You may want to adjust your graphic to represent this.
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Actually, Circuit City announced closing 155 of their stores in November of 2008. Those stores had discounts of over 30% each. This was the beginning of the 3+ month slide for Circuit City to close down.
Check out this article on CNet News: http://news.cnet.com/let-the-liquidation-begin-circuit-city-starts-sales-at-closing-locations/
Its something new to know about this type things.Nice post.
Black Friday is a gimmick. and cheap bastards fall for it every year.
great post as usual .. thanks .. you just gave me a few more ideas to play with