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Cyber Monday Is Set To Be a $7.8 Billion Day, Breaking Online Records (usatoday.com)
According to Adobe Analytics, shoppers are expected to spend $7.8 billion on Cyber Monday, 18.3 percent more than in 2017. "The sweet spot will fall between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. EST, Adobe says, when it's anticipated shoppers will spend $1.6 billion -- about $200 million more than what retailers would see during a typical whole day any other time of the year," reports USA Today. From the report: But at a time when shoppers can buy products ranging from dolls to detergent by tapping on a tablet or smart phone, Black Friday and even Thanksgiving are gaining on Cyber Monday to become banner days for online shopping. Retailers saw $6.22 billion in digital sales on Black Friday, 23.6 percent more than last year and the most ever on that day, Adobe says. Meanwhile, Thanksgiving Day experienced the biggest single-day surge in online shopping history, leaping 28 percent over the holiday in 2017 to $3.7 billion.
Smartphones are increasingly the shopping gadget of choice. Mobile sales were expected to total more than $2 billion on Monday, Adobe says. And the more than $1 billion in smartphone sales on Thanksgiving were a record for that day. Besides enabling shoppers to make purchases any time, anywhere, shopping via smartphone has also taken off because it's become simpler and faster.
Smartphones are increasingly the shopping gadget of choice. Mobile sales were expected to total more than $2 billion on Monday, Adobe says. And the more than $1 billion in smartphone sales on Thanksgiving were a record for that day. Besides enabling shoppers to make purchases any time, anywhere, shopping via smartphone has also taken off because it's become simpler and faster.
I spent five bucks on a video game at Valve Steam. Woo-hoo!
I didn't buy anything, online or offline.
Singles Day makes "Cyber Monday" look like a small potato.
The holiday has become the largest offline and online shopping day in the world, with Alibaba shoppers exceeding 168.2 billion yuan (US$25.4 billion) in spending during the 2017 celebration
Singles Day did more than $1B in sales in the first few minutes. Combining all sites it was over $60B in sales. "Cyber Monday" is roughly 10% of a Singles Day.
you are demented!
the real story here is how Adobe Analytics knows this information - do retailers give it to them? do they install tracking and spyware on web sites? do customers supply the information? why doesn't someone investigate this aspect of the story?
You are still demented!
Until you have an account, I will believe every post that mentions apk in any form is your crazy ass.
On November 11th, 2018.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/1...
You said THAT trolling by UNIDENTIFIABLE ac? Hypocrite, then you can serve as a lesson: There's NO CURE for STUPID (as in you, lol).
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I'd never "cry victim" to ne'er-do-wells (TROLLS, not all /.ers) either.
U EVEN HELPED ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... (& then realizing it you quit trying to make me look bad via what you thought were lies on hosts as "ME" IN YOUR IMPERSONATIONS of me e.g. https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... on speculative execution attack: Hosts PREVENT 'EM, joke's on you)
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Wasn't really me you replied to: It's impersonators of me & I only post on hosts IF they stop threats OR speed you up. I don't off topic.
I won't "lay down" to losers attacking me 1st. I defend myself w/ facts they can't beat.
& NO WAY I'd "cry" like you "playing victim ne'er-do-wells" on /. (TROLL /.ers, not all) OR post on hosts offtopic.
I've got a "psycho fanclub" IMPERSONATING me & spamming + lying about MY work STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts!
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Maybe, but there are reports that a lot of those high numbers claimed over the past few years are from false sales. Sales are initiated but never completed on things like crates of raw material, yachts, even parcels of land, etc.
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On November 11th, 2018.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/1...
Yes, but those are the sales for the one-day Singles Day. US holiday shopping is spread out over an entire month. If all Christmas sales were all compressed to a single day, then the total would be much higher for that one day. As a comparison, total 2017 US Christmas sales were over $700 billion, of which $123 billion was online.
China is quickly becoming a consumer economy, but it still has a ways to catch up to the US for now.
That's almost cute considering Alibaba's Singles Day sales of $30.8 Billion for 2018. Or thousand million or whatever you prefer to call it.
I dunno, I bought a ton of shit on Singles Day. Did my part to keep China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and probably about a dozen other Sinitic cultures vibrant.
My inbox was full of Cyber Monday sales, including the likes of airlines and companies that don't sell electronics. Just another bullshit excuse for a sale with prices that aren't much cheaper than regular prices at Amazon.
Fake and gay is fake and gay, good point.
Is there something wrong with being single and not having sex?
As long as you buy a ton of bullshit on Alibaba, apparently not. Enjoy yourself.
Check out the sales for the month around the Chinese new year, and come back to us, smartypants.
On a relates note, I saw No good deals on Amazon at Black friday or cyber monday?
Everything was same price or worse than on a regulær day, what up with that? (From europe)
There's a good reason for that. Many people in China only recently gained enough money to buy stuff. They need microwave ovens, refrigerators, better televisions and of course, better smartphones.
In the US, we have more than we can use by far. We have filled our garages, attics and basements with stuff. There is nothing left to buy.
...omphaloskepsis often...
Check out the sales for the month around the Chinese new year, and come back to us, smartypants.
As you wish, Buttercup. One estimate of the week-long Chinese New Year is around 840 billion yuan ($140 billion) in the retail and catering industries for 2017.
Of course, this is not a beauty contest. Rather this reflects cultural behavior. Christmas in the US has culturally become a buying season. That's good for the economy and potentially bad for overstretched family budgets buying things that aren't needed. Chinese New Year is about family, eating, sweeping out the old, ushering in the new, and red envelopes. It's starting to move in the commercial, non-family direction of American Christmas observance, which is arguably also not a great thing.
What is with all these Chinese trolls, cheerleading for the enemy? The 50 Cent Gang invades Slashdot?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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50 cent Chinese trolls are like American Express, they are everywhere you want to be. Hopefully, the supreme Pooh Bear-for-life will eventually have to cut them down to a quarter.