DISQUS

VentureBeat: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

  • Nuts · 1 year ago
    Shop till you drop, baby.

    Or you wear your keyboard out.
  • Nuts · 1 year ago
    Oops. Forgot my grav.
  • lastime · 1 year ago
    One more time.
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    Uh, what?
  • ZZ · 1 year ago
    I would think that in a down year more peopletake advantage of low prices while not buying later on.

    On the quantitative side, there are 4 less days in the holiday shopping season this year (27 vs 31), i.e. to make the same revenue, you need to sell ~15% more every day (assuming that everybody shops for Christmas after Thanksgiving, which is not necessarily true).

    Finally, the CPI index (inflation) was 3.7%, so in real terms, sales were down circa 2.7% (brick and mortar sales were up 3%, which makes it ~0.7% down)
  • edhardy622 · 2 months ago
    British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.
    http://www.abercrombieshop.us