Tag: Black Friday

November 27, 2023

As Cyber Monday sales continue to roll in, Cyber Week appears to have allayed retailers anxieties by delivering another year of record consumer spending, according to Adobe Analytics. Online spending on Black Friday came in above projections, at $9.8 billion […]

September 28, 2023

Any retailer will tell you that succeeding during the holiday season hinges on two things: preparation and timing. Back-to-school gives way to Halloween and, before you know it, Thanksgiving and Black Friday are upon us, signaling the official start of […]

December 13, 2022

Across the biggest retail events of the calendar year, ecommerce websites had to handle up to 80% more website traffic than normal, according to a new report by cloud hosting platform Platform.sh. Among the 12,000 websites that run on Platform.sh […]

November 29, 2022

Cyber Monday saw a 5% increase in transactions compared to last year, following in the footsteps of positive Black Friday figures, according to Barclaycard Payments. Barclaycard Payments processes £1 in every £3 spent in the UK. “Our data shows that […]

November 18, 2022

As the UK heads into peak online shopping season, with both Black Friday and Christmas on the horizon, retailers are facing a double whammy of cost inflation and subdued consumer demand. This week, Google shared new market research findings to […]

November 10, 2022

New research from global Coalfire Coalfire has found that retail is one of the worst-performing sectors when it comes to defending against cyberattacks. The analysis comes just as retailers across the UK are gearing up for the vital Christmas trading […]

November 1, 2022

Figures from Wunderman Thompson Commerce have revealed that consumers are set to spend up to 50% less than usual this Black Friday. Overall spend per consumer is expected to fall from £168.18 in 2021 back to the 2020 average of […]

September 30, 2022

Black Friday still draws large crowds to malls, shopping centers and stores, but a large percentage of Americans will spend the day opening apps and shopping from the comfort of their homes. New research from Wunderkind shows that 71 percent […]

September 15, 2022

Huge crowds, long lines and crazy stampedes are things of Black Fridays past. Nowadays, more and more shoppers are flocking to ecommerce sites for the best deals. In fact, global ecommerce sales are expected to top $5.5 trillion in 2022 […]

September 9, 2022

From supply chain struggles and delayed shipments to empty shelves and increasing inflation, retailers are yet again facing a myriad of struggles this holiday season. With the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend just months away, Wholesale Central spoke with experts from […]

November 29, 2021

Shopify has announced a “record-setting” Black Friday, with total sales of $2.9 billion from independent and direct-to-consumer businesses worldwide. Together, merchants on Shopify generated peak sales of nearly $3.1 million per minute at 12:02 PM EST on Black Friday and […]

October 12, 2021

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas could see retailers’ ecommerce systems collapse entirely as tech bosses warn there “simply aren’t enough quality engineers to keep up with the demand”. The spike in online traffic expected to hit ecommerce sites over […]

December 15, 2020

Online fashion orders have skyrocketed 363 per cent since the start of November as Cyber Week and Christmas shopping provided a much-needed boost for the industry. According to the latest data from True Fit’s Fashion Genome, web traffic jumped 159 […]

December 2, 2020

The shipping showdown has started. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday raking in record amounts of online sales this year, according to Adobe, delivery rivals FedEx and UPS are gearing up for a busy holiday season. FedEx shares appear to […]

December 1, 2020

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Germany have been called on by their trade union to strike for the second time in a week in order to disrupt the processing of Black Friday orders. The strike is set to begin […]

November 25, 2020

Black Friday essentially began a month ago in October with Amazon AMZN +2.3% Prime Day as retailers started taking advantage of early promotional tactics to win over customers long before Thanksgiving weekend. However, even with the longer season for holiday […]

November 24, 2020

Cyber Monday is a critical online event for retailers. Last year, research conducted by Adobe Analytics found that Cyber Monday brought in $9.4 billion in sales, including $3 billion from mobile customers alone. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic leaving many […]

November 23, 2020

Amazon has announced plans to delay its Black Friday sales event in France to allow smaller independent retailers struggling during lockdown the chance to compete. The ecommerce giant, alongside other leading French retailers like Carrefour, will now not launch any […]

November 11, 2020

Wow, suddenly everybody is running Black Friday ads. All that advance advertising is a sure way to kill a good idea. Remember when Bloomingdale’s invited you to a Friends and Family event? You felt honored to be included and shopped […]

November 9, 2020

Online retail sales could grow between 35 per cent and 45 per cent this Black Friday. New research from IMRG finds that with non-essential stores closed from now until December, this year’s Black Friday will likely signal a seismic shift […]