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Re: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

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Re: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

ZZ — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:18:41 -0000

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)

Re: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

Anthony Ha — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:30:10 -0000

Uh, what?

Re: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

lastime — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:24:08 -0000

One more time.

Re: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

Nuts — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:21:36 -0000

Oops. Forgot my grav.

Re: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

Nuts — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:20:20 -0000

Shop till you drop, baby.

Or you wear your keyboard out.