Perhaps lost amid all the reports of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales records was the fact that not all retailers cashed in, and not because consumers didn’t want what they sell. To the contrary, customer demand deluged those retailers, who responded by floating the big holiday fail whale because their sites couldn’t handle the [...]
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Cyber Monday
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the Din of Irrelevant Analysis
During the past week — unless you were blissfully disconnected from all sources of media — you were likely inundated with news articles, tweets, posts and endless TV stories about Americans as weapons of massive consumption. Reporters and pundits alike pontificated about the significance of earlier and earlier store openings, the relentless quest for the [...]
Cyber Monday Sets Record. Are We Surprised?
Americans spent the weekend shopping, increasingly online, so they surely left nothing for Cyber Monday, right? Well, plenty of outlets today are declaring Monday online shopping’s biggest day ever. IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, which tracks e-commerce transactions from more than 500 retailers, said online sales on Monday were up 30 percent from Cyber Monday a [...]