Black Friday 2021 didn’t provide UK retailers with the uplift in footfall they were hoping for, new data reveals. Footfall during the popular discount shopping day was down 23.4 percent compared to the same day in 2019, prior to the pandemic, according to BRC-Sensormatic IQ data. For the whole month of November, footfall was 15.7 lower than it...
Dec 3, 2021
Newly released data from Nosto’s Black Friday Cyber Monday report says fashion ecommerce performance bounced back after the 2020 holiday season. The average order value for fashion was up 12 percent year-on-year compared to a -3 percent fall in 2020. And while online traffic for ecommerce as a whole was down 7 percent and sales up 2 percent this...
The five-day holiday shopping period from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday saw about 180 million Americans making in-store and online purchases, according to the National Retail Federation's Annual Thanksgiving Weekend Consumer Survey, conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. The shoppers spent an average of 301.27 dollars on...
Dec 1, 2021
Shopify has announced its Black Friday sales to be a total of nearly 2.9 billion dollars. This is a 21 percent increase in sales from 2020, which saw a 75 percent surge in sales due to lockdown. It is also double Shopify’s sales on Black Friday in 2019. Merchants using Shopify earned peak sales of 3.1 million per minute at 12:02 PM EST during...
Nov 30, 2021
Cyber Monday was a bonanza for retailers when Black Friday was more subdued in footfall on the high street. Retailers saw an increase in the volume of payments in comparison to last year’s shopping event. Data from Barclaycard Payments show payment volume increased 16.7 per cent compared Cyber Monday 2020, with a 4.5 per cent increase in...
Circa 50 percent of consumers in the U.S. are planning to do their holidays shopping during the Saturday after Thanksgiving, known as Small Business Saturday since 2010. On average, each American is expected to spend over 300 dollars each in local, alternative stores this year. Founded by American Express in 2010 and officially cosponsored by...
Nov 26, 2021
Sustainable womenswear brand Baukjen and maternity label Isabella Oliver, collectively known as the House of Baukjen, is boycotting Black Friday to donate profits to charity. For the four-day cyber shopping weekend, from November 26 to 29, House of Baukjen will step away from the aggressive discounting of Black Friday to instead donate 100...
Nov 23, 2021
Sustainable outdoor brand Finisterre is shunning the biggest sales event of the year, Black Friday, to support equal access to the ocean for everyone with the launch of its Finisterre Foundation Community Interest Company. By turning Black Friday blue, Finisterre states that it will be able to make a “real difference” to help fund schemes such...
Nov 22, 2021
Consumers in the US are planning to get their holidays shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend, defying the odds brought in by disrupted supply chains, rising inflation and lingering concerns of new waves of coronavirus variants. Nearly 2 million more people than last year are expected to shop from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday this year...
Nov 21, 2021
Amazon is unveiling more Black Friday deals than ever before for its 48-Hour Black Friday Event, from November 25 through November 26. Customers will be able to shop incredible deals with deep discounts on top products and must-have items. New gadgets and electronics from Samsung, kid-favorite toys and baby essentials from Mattel and Cybex gb...
Nov 15, 2021
Online fast fashion retailer BoohooMan has launched its first augmented reality campaign ahead of Black Friday. The ‘Hack Friday’ campaign is a new dystopian vision of its Black Friday promotions and features their digital character and ‘hacker’ Robin, who has infiltrated the world of fashion by offering up “unexpected discounts” for all...
On the eve that China and the U.S. signed a deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Double 11 gala, better known as Singles Day, the Alibaba annual online shopping bonanza, kicked off in China. This is the first retail event since China began clamping down on surging corporate profit and tech giants, but the contrast between the highly...
Nov 11, 2021
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